SEPTEMBER 1644 My head was down as I rode into the teeth of a gale beside Edward and I struggled to understand the meaning of the sudden shouts of anxiety from in front of us. I looked up and saw horses rearing and turning. Then I heard a volley of shots ring out, though I could not see who fired them for the smoke that suddenly hung over the road. At last, and nearly too late, I obeyed a harshly issued instruction to dismount and take shelter behind the wagons if I valued my life. I felt rather than heard the musket fire that might have been the end of me, as it ripped the air apart and shredded the canvas behind my head...

 

This book is part of a book series called My Story .

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Scholastic .

VINCE CROSS is an established writer of both fiction and non-fiction, having published more than a dozen books with Macmillan, OUP and Scholastic.