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{{Infobox book<br />
| image = Cast Two Shadows.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition<br />
| name = Cast Two Shadows<br />
| title_orig = <br />
| translator = <br />
| author= [[Ann Rinaldi]]<br />
| cover_artist = <br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| series = [[Great Episodes]]<br />
| genre = [[Historical novel|Historical]]<br />
| publisher=[[Harcourt Trade Publishers|Harcourt Books]]<br />
| release_date = 1998<br />
| media_type = Print (paperback)<br />
| pages = 304 pp<br />
| isbn = 0-15-200881-0<br />
| congress= PZ7.R459 Cas 1998<br />
| oclc= 38389984<br />
| preceded_by = [[An Acquaintance with Darkness]]<br />
| followed_by = [[The Coffin Quilt]]<br />
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'''''Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in South Carolina''''' is a 1998 [[historical novel]] by [[Ann Rinaldi]], a part of the [[Great Episodes]] series. It is told in [[first-person narration|first-person]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
It is 1780, in the midst of the [[American Revolution]], in [[Camden, South Carolina]], and fourteen-year-old Caroline Whitaker, her step mother Sarah and her bratty older half-sister Georgia Ann are confined to one small room of their spacious Southern plantation home. Caroline is the light-skinned daughter of the plantation's owner and a slave who has been raised by Mama Sarah. British soldiers, led by [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings|Colonel Rawdon]] are occupying the place. The Colonel is also courting Georgia Ann.<br />
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Caroline and her Negra caretaker, who is also her grandmother, Miz Melindy, travel to get her 'almost' brother Johnny. He converts into an American patriot, after being whipped and spanked by a British officer for not handing over his second most prized horse- Grey Goose, aside from the most thoroughbred blooded mare in all of St. Mark's Parish, Fearnaught. Johnny's horses make many conflicts throughout the novel, including Caroline's sore wound over Kit's dab and dabbing.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
In a starred review, ''[[Booklist]]''<nowiki/>'s Susan Dove Lempke praised ''Cast Two Shadows'' for being "impeccably researched",<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Lempke |first=Susan Dove |date=1998-09-15 |title=Cast Two Shadows |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Cast-Two-Shadows-Ann-Rinaldi/pid=162458 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=[[Booklist]] |archive-date=February 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220220221/https://www.booklistonline.com/Cast-Two-Shadows-Ann-Rinaldi/pid=162458 |url-status=live }}</ref> a point with which ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' agreed, highlighting how Rinaldi "deftly incorporat[es] facts into the background".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=1998-08-15 |title=Cast Two Shadows |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ann-rinaldi/cast-two-shadows/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |archive-date=September 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924074438/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ann-rinaldi/cast-two-shadows/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Lempke also noted that the book is " vividly detailed, and filled with very human characters". ''Kirkus'' similarly discussed how Rinaldi "leav[es] most of the violence offstage", which "keeps the focus on her characters".<br />
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''[[School Library Journal]]'''s Star E. Smith called the novel "deftly plotted and fast-paced".<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Starr E. |date=2010 |title=Cast Two Shadows |url=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C706367 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=[[School Library Journal]] |series=Great episodes |publisher=Harcourt Brace |isbn=978-0-15-200881-9 |via=[[Chicago Public Library]] |archive-date=February 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220220213/https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C706367 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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Lempke praised ''Cast Two Shadows'' as a novel "about something that matters", in this case "truth, secrets, and the difficulty of determining the right thing to do".<ref name=":0" /> Smith also commented on the novel's "provocative themes".<ref name=":2" /> Despite this, ''Kirkus Reviews'' suggested [[Anna Myers]]’s Keeping Room for readers looking for "a less disingenuous story set in the same place and time [that] offers a more direct view of the unusual brutality that characterized the war in the Carolinas".<ref name=":1" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:1998 American novels]]<br />
[[Category:1998 children's books]]<br />
[[Category:American children's novels]]<br />
[[Category:Children's historical novels]]<br />
[[Category:Novels by Ann Rinaldi]]<br />
[[Category:Novels set in South Carolina]]<br />
[[Category:Fiction set in 1780]]<br />
[[Category:Novels set in the 1780s]]<br />
[[Category:Kershaw County, South Carolina]]<br />
[[Category:Novels set during the American Revolutionary War]]<br />
[[Category:American historical novels]]<br />
[[Category:Children's books set in South Carolina]]<br />
[[Category:Children's books set during the American Revolutionary War]]<br />
[[Category:Children's books about African-American history]]<br />
[[Category:Children's books about slavery]]<br />
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