Queen Anne Books

Howard Frank Mosher is one of Queen Anne Books favorite authors for many reasons but here are the two most important. First he is genuinely a very nice man. Second, he is a terrific storyteller which he has once again proven in Walking to Gatlinburg.

Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson and his brother Pilgrim grew up on Kingdom Mountain, Vermont with parents who were active in the underground railroad. Pilgrim left the family farm to join the Union Army as a medic and has not been heard from since the battle at Gettysburg. When a slave he is responsible for transporting is killed, Morgan is left, not only with a terrible sense of guilt, but also a mysterious stone with a runic map on one side. And the men who killed the slave are now doing their best to track and kill Morgan (and retrieve the stone) setting in motion a journey he had been long in planning to try and find his brother.

Mosher manages to write a gripping adventure story filled with unforgettable characters, outrageous exploits and yet still imparting the chaos of that terrible war between brothers. “...Morgan feared that this new frenzy sweeping the land was yet another manifestation of the violence done by the war to reason and good sense….simply another outbreak of the epidemic of madness gripping the universe.”
  ~Patti