Civil War

Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown
Publisher:  Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date:  2010
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Summary:  Jennie is a teen girl living in a precarious situation. She was taken in by her Aunt & Uncle after her parents died, but they don’t seem to want to keep her around much longer. Its 1864, in the midst of the American Civil War, and there just aren’t that many options for an uneducated woman with no skills. Her twin brother perished early in the war, and now it appears the war has taken her cousin/fiancé Will. When only his brother Quinn returns home, Jennie is devastated, and in their grief they they turn to each other. Despite her new attachment, Jennie can’t help but the presence of her lost love. In fact there are some pretty strong signs that his spirit has lingered, and has something important to say. Jennie must interpret these ghostly clues before its too late. 


 Bull Run by Paul Fleischman, David  Frampton, Illustrator
Publisher:  Harper Collins
Publication Date:  1993
Awards & Recognitions:  Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, NCTE Notable Children's Trade Books in the Language Arts in 1994
Summary:  Sixteen characters offer their accounts of the American Civil War from its beginning to the first battle of Bull Run. Viewpoints from blacks and whites, youngsters and oldsters, soldiers and civilians, Northerners and Southerners provide a unique perspective on this unsettling time in America. Young Minnesotan Lily Malloy mourns the loss of her brother after he runs away to join the Union; light-skinned Gideon Adams enlists as a white man, though he's afraid his disguise will be detected; and Flora Wheelworth nurses both Rebs and Yanks in her Manassas home. This unique snapshot of the Civil War is a more vivid and realistic portrayal than most of the true accounts.


Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date:  2007
Awards & Recognitions:  School Library's Journal Best Books of 2007
Summary:  The horrors of the bloodiest war in U.S. history, the American Civil War, provide a gritty backdrop for this story of spunky India Moody. With her school in the Shenandoah Valley closed for the duration, India begins home schooling with her godmother's son, neighbor Emory Trimble. He is a scientist who at first believes that "girls aren't supposed to read chemistry or botany. Lots of men say they can't use it in life, and it hurts girls' minds to think like men." That India does study science, and learns a great deal about medicine, allows the story to go inside the field hospitals with their terrible conditions and dedicated medical personnel. Her studies also mask a growing romance with Emory, but nothing can mask the fact that her father is missing, that the war has come to her back door, and that she wants to leave Virginia to study at Oberlin College.


Publisher:  Delacorte
Publication Date:  1998
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Summary:  In 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't rightly know what a "shooting war" meant, or what he was fighting for. But he knew he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.  The "shooting war" meant the horror of combat, and the wild luck of survival. It meant knowing how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. Waiting for death.When he entered the service he was only a boy. When he came back he was only 19, but he was a man said to have "soldier's heart.











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