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3) My Vicksburg
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.
4) Amelia's war
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 170 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure, ' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First Gulliver Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution. The spunky daughter of Paul Revere tells the story of her father's rides and the intelligence network of the Patriot community prior to the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free black, safe from rebel soldiers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
10) Girl in blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gulliver Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First Gulliver Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 353 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it.
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