Fat itibaren Goval, Maharashtra 416702, Ấn Độ
read this when i was in elementary school. can't believe it was randomly on here! loved stuff like this back then. along with the bernstein bears, encyclopedia brown, anything R.L. Stine, the babysitters club, the boxcar kids, etc, etc...
The best Ann Rinaldi book and also her first, I think. Snooty Confederate girl learns to sacrifice during the War, ends up collecting all these dresses to make a hot air balloon to spy on northerners. She has a bad relationship with her mother, and an attractive, disowned brother who sort of is Rhett Butler-like, loves the South but profiting off of the war. Later learns her brother was kicked out of the house because he fell in love with a slave girl who turned out to be his half-sister (oops.)