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Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named...
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With Every Drop of Blood

James Collier - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The authors of My Brother Sam Is Dead examine the causes of the Civil War in the tale of an unlikely friendship formed between a Yankee soldier who is a runaway slave and the Rebel boy he captures.
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Annie, Between the States

Laura Elliott - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

The civil war has broken out, and Annie Sinclair's Virginia home, Hickory Heights, is right in the line of battle. Caught up in the rising conflict, Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers while Annie's older brother, Laurence, enlists in the Confederate cavalry under Jeb Stuart....
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Riot

Walter Dean Myers - Egmont USA
Format: Hardcover

As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft-a draft...
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Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers

Gary Paulsen - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Gary Paulsen introduces readers to Charley Goddard in his latest novel, Soldier's Heart. Charley goes to war a boy, and returns a changed man, crippled by what he has seen. In this captivating tale Paulsen vividly shows readers the turmoil of war through one boy's eyes and one boy's...
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The Last Full Measure

Ann Rinaldi - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

As Confederate and Union soldiers take over their town, the local residents can do little more than hunker down in their homes while cannon and gunfire explode around them. But the battles are not only fought between soldiers. At home, fourteen-year-old Tacy and her disabled brother lock...
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My Vicksburg

Ann Rinaldi - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. Although...
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