{"product_id":"2940158204548","title":"Frank's Campaign (Illustrated), or, What Boys Can Do on the Farm for the Camp","description":"\"Frank's Campaign; or, The Farm and the Camp, Alger's first foray into juvenile literature, was written in 1864 after Alger was rejected by the Army for being too short. Unlike many popular children's stories written after the Civil War, Frank's Campaign does not deal with slavery, per se. The text, set in 1862, deals with the war in an abstract fashion, and both the regional conflict and slavery are treated as peripheral to the story, even though both the institution of slavery and the rebellion of the South generate the plot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story, set in Pennsylvania, centers around fifteen-year-old Frank Frost, who, in a patriotic gesture, offers to postpone his schooling in order to tend the farm after his father enlists in the Union army. Frank organizes a marching and drilling corps of the area boys, hence the book's title, Frank's Campaign. There are stereotypical good guys and bad guys: the main villains are the evil father and son team of Squire and John Haynes, who individually and collectively plot to disrupt life for the virtuous Frost family.\" - Project MUSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of the book contains the original illustration, rejuvenated, and nine additional place-, time-, and subject-relevant illustrations that are unique to this edition of the book.","brand":"Philadelphia: Porter \u0026 Coates, 1864","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112977219824,"sku":"2940158204548","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158204548_p0.jpg?v=1764112551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158204548","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}