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Hist. Fic. Civil War USA

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Do you know them? - Keller, Shana, 1977-

Summary: Set in 1865, a young girl named Lettie saves her money so she and her uncle can place an advertisement to find the members of their family that were separated under slavery.

A light in the storm : the diary of Amelia Martin - Hesse, Karen.

Summary: In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her...

Perilous road - Steele, William O

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he...

Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers : a novel of the Civil War - Paulsen, Gary.

Summary: Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.

Like a river : a Civil war novel - Wiechman, Kathy Cannon,

Summary: Two Union soldiers, one too young to have properly enlisted, and the other a girl disguised as a boy, find themselves struggling through the rigors and horrors of war, from amputation to the...

The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier - Murphy, Jim, 1947-

Summary: James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Shades of gray - Reeder, Carolyn.

Summary: At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he...

Behind rebel lines : the incredible story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War spy - Reit, Seymour.

Summary: When war erupts between the States in 1861, President Lincoln makes an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, young Emma Edmonds poses as a man and enlists in...

Meet Addy : an American girl - Porter, Connie Rose, 1959-

Summary: Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.

Across five Aprils - Hunt, Irene.

Summary: Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.