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Civil War (1850-1865)

 Alcott, Louisa May. Little women. 1868. Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England. New England, 1860s. Grades YA-Adult, F&P-Z, RL 6.2, 7.9


 Allen, Thomas B. Mr. Lincoln’s high-tech war: how the North used the telegraph… 2009. Examines how Abraham Lincoln's interest in technology played a role in the outcome of the Civil War; and explains how the telegraph, railroads, surveillance balloons, and other inventions helped the North win the war and rebuild the economy. Nonfiction - 973.3 ALL Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 8.9, 11.7
 Anderson, Tanya. Tillie Pierce: teen eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg. 2013. Describes the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War through the eyes of Tillie Pierce, a teenager who lived through the fighting. Nonfiction – 973.7 AND. Gettysburg, PA. 1863. Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL 7.6
 Armstrong, Jennifer. Dreams of Mairhe Mehan. 1996. Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, struggles to come to grips with the impact of the Civil War on her family. Washington DC. 1860s. Grades 7-12, F&P-, RL 6.9
 Armstrong, Jennifer. Steal Away. 1992. In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls. Virginia, 1855. Grades 6-9, F&P-Z, RL 5.3
 Avi. Iron thunder: the battle between the Monitor and The Merrimac. 2008. Thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll takes his place as head of the family after his father dies fighting for the Union; but his job at the local ironworks, where he helps build an iron ship for the Union army, and his loyalty come into question when he is approached by Confederate spies to sell secrets about the ship to the South. 1862. Grades 4-7, F&P-, RL 3.3, 4.3
Ayre, Katherine. North by Night: story of the underground railroad. 1998. Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad. Ohio, 1851. Grades 5-9, F&P-X, RL 4.8
Ballard, Allen. Where I’m Bound. After Joe Duckett escapes from slavery and joins the Northern Army, he must return to the plantation from which he escaped to reunite with his wife and daughter. 1863-. Grades YA-Adult, F&P-, RL 5.6
 Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. No man’s land. 1999. Because he had been unable to fight off the gator which injured his father, fourteen-year-old Thrasher joins the Confederate Army hoping to prove his manhood. South, 1861. Grades 4-8, F&P-, RL 4.8
Bass, Cynthia. Sherman’s March. 1994. Explores the human side of war's devastation while portraying the effects of General Sherman's decision to march from Atlanta to the sea. 1964-. YA-Adult F&P-, RL
 Beatty, Patricia. Charley Skedaddle. 1987. During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman. Virginia. Grades , F&P-U, RL 6.3
Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker. 1995. In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy. Missouri & Kansas, 1861. Grades 5-8, F&P-T, RL 5.9, 6.2
Beatty, Patricia. Turn homeward, Hannalee. 1984. Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends. Georgia, 1864. Grades 5-8, F&P-T, RL 6.5
Beatty, Patricia. Who comes with cannons? 1992. In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War. North Carolina, 1861. Grades 5-7, F&P-T, RL 5.5
Blackwood, Gary. Second Sight. 2007. In Washington, D.C., during the last days of the Civil War, a teenage boy who performs in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot. Washington, D.C. 1864. Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 5.9
 Bruchac, Joseph. March toward the thunder. 2008. Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. 1864. Grades 7-10, F&P-, RL 5.7
 Butzer, C.M. Gettysburg: the graphic novel. 2009. Presents a comic book style depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg; the national movement to create a memorial at the battle site; and the day of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863, drawn from first-person letters, speeches, and other primary sources. 1863. Gettysburg, PA. Nonfiction - 973.73 BUT Grades 5-9, F&P-, RL 4.7
Clapp, Patricia. Tamarack Tree: a novel of the siege of Vicksburg. 1986. An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. 1963. Grades 7-10, F&P-, RL 6.3
Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher Collier. With every drop of blood. 1994. While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by an African-American Union soldier. Virginia, 1864. Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL 5.9
 Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage. 1895. During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. YA-Adult, F&P-, RL 8
 Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. 2007. Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom. Buxton, Canada. 1859. Grades 4-7, F&P-W, RL 5.6, 7.8
 Denenburg, Barry. When will this cruel war be over?: the Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson. 2011. The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War. Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 Grades 4-7, F&P-T, RL 6.5
Durrant, Lydia. Imperfections. 2008. Fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth tries to fit into the world of the Shaker sisters in 1862 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, but yearns to be reunited with her mother and siblings from whom she was separated when they sought refuge from her abusive father. Kentucky, 1862. Grades 6-10, F&P-, RL 5.0
 Ernst, Kathleen. Hearts of Stone. 2006. Orphaned when their father dies fighting for the Union and mother expires from exhaustion, and also estranged from their Confederate neighbors, fifteen-year-old Hannah and her siblings struggle to find a way to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee. Tennessee. Grades 6-8, F&P-, RL 4.2, 5.8
 Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. 1993. Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War. Virginia, 1861. Grades 6-9, F&P-Y, RL 6.4
Forstchen, William R. We look like men of war. 2001. Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850, is forced to make a run for freedom after a confrontation with his cruel master, but he returns to the South at the outbreak of the Civil War as a regimental drummer for the Union.
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. 1997. Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he remembers as changed by the war as he. 1864-. YA-Adult, F&P-, RL 9.0 Adult title
 Freedman, Russell. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: the story behind an American friendship. 2012. Looks at the lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, including their friendship and their affect on Emancipation and the Civil War. Nonfiction – 973.7 FRE Grades 5-10, F&P-, RL 10.5
 Giblin, James. Good Brother, bad brother: the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. 2005. Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades afterward. Nonfiction - 920 GIB Grades 6-9, F&P-Z, RL 7.3
 Gutman, Dan. Abner & Me: a baseball card adventure. 2007. With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg, PA, 1863. Grades 5-8, F&P-T, RL 4.8
 Hale, Nathan. Big Bad Ironclad: a Civil War steamship showdown. 2012. Retells, in graphic-novel format, the history of the ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War, revealing facts about the ship's inventor, William Cushing--who pranked his way through the entire war--and other real-life characters. 1854. Nonfiction – 741.5 HAL. Grades 3-8, F&P-, RL 2.7
Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave. 1997. A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts. 1854. Nonfiction. Grades 7-12, F&P-Y, RL 7.1
Hansen, Joyce. Which way freedom? 1986. Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1864. Grades 6-9, F&P-T, RL 4.5, 6.5
 Hemphill,Michael. Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run. 2009. While participating in a reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, twelve-year-old Stonewall Hinkleman is transported back to the actual Civil War battle by means of a magic bugle. Virginia, 1861. Grades 5-7, F&P-T, RL 5.0
 Hess, Karen. Light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin. 2011. 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 divided state. Deleware, 1860-1861. Grades 4-8, F&P-T, RL 5.6
 Hughes, Pat. Guerrilla Season. 2003. Two fifteen-year-old boys in Missouri in 1863 find friendship and family loyalty tested by Quantrell's raiders, a Rebel guerrilla band who roamed under the black flag of "no quarter to be given by Union troops.” Missouri, 1863-. Grades 6-10, F&P-W, RL 5.3
 Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils. 1964. 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. Grades 5-8, F&P-Z, RL 5.5, 6.5
Ives, David. Scrib. 2005. In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian. West, 1863. Grades 6-9, F&P-W, RL 6.0.

& Jones, Elizabeth McDavid. Watcher in the Piney Woods. In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm. Virginia, 1865. Grades 5-8, F&P-Z, RL 5.2


Keehn, Sally. Anna Sunday. 2002. In 1863 twelve-year-old Anna, disguised as a boy and accompanied by her younger brother Jed, leaves their Pennsylvania home and makes the difficult journey to join their wounded father in Winchester, Virginia, where they find themselves in danger from Confederate troops. 1863. Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 4.6, 6.0
Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie. 1957. The struggles and hardships faced by Jeff Bussey on his 300-mile escape route during the Civil War. Grades 6-8, F&P-, RL 7.1
 Kluger, Jeffrey. Freedom Stone. 2011. With the help of a magical stone from Africa, a thirteen-year-old slave travels to the battle of Vicksburg to clear her father's name and free her family from bondage. South. 1861-1865. Grades 5-9, F&P-, RL 9.2
 Lyons, Mary E. Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies. 2000. A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew. Richmond, VA. 1856-1865. Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 5.4, 5.9
 McKissack, Patricia. A picture of freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl. 1997. In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom. Virginia, 1859. Grades 5-8, F&P-T, RL 5.2
 McMullen, Margaret. How I found the strong: a Civil War story. 2004. Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking. Mississippi, 1861-. Grades 5-8, F&P-U, RL 5.5, 6.3
& Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the wind. 1964. After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home. Georgia, 1860s-. YA-Adult, F&P-, RL 7.1, 9.0
Mrazek, Robert. Stonewall’s gold. 1999. When Jamie Lockhart arrives in Port Republic during the last winter of the Civil War, he learns a terrible secret that the army would kill to keep hidden, and with only the help of a one-armed soldier and a beautiful young woman, Jamie must find a way to outwit Sherman's army and stay alive. Virginia, 1864. YA-Adult, F&P-, RL 6.9
 Murphy, Jim. The boy’s war: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War. 1990. Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War. Nonfiction - 973.7 MUR Grades 5-12, F&P-, RL 7.8
 Myers, Walter Dean. Riot. 2009. Written in screenplay format. In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and an African father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against African-Americans and wealthy "swells" of New York City. 1863. New York City. Grades 7&up, F&P-, RL 4.6
Nixon, Joan Lowry. A Family Apart. 1987. When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860. Missouri, 1860. Grades 4-6, F&P-W, RL 6.1
 O’Dell, Scott. Sing down the moon. 1970. A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, as prisoners of the white soldiers. 1864. Grades 6-10, F&P-T, RL 5.3
 Olmstead, Robert. Coal Black Horse. 2007. When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war. ADULT! Adult, F&P-, RL 10.5
 O’Reilly, Bill. Lincoln’s Last Days: the shocking assassination that changed America forever. 2012. Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their murderous plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspirators. Nonfiction - 973.709 ORE Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL
 Osborne, Linda. Traveling the freedom road: from slavery & the Civil War through Reconstruction. 2009. Presents a history of slavery in the United State, from the early establishment of the slave trade prior to the American Revolution, to the abolitionist movement, emancipation, and the upheavals of the Reconstructive period of the late nineteenth century. Nonfiction - 973.7 OSB Grades 6-9, F&P-W, RL 8.1, 10.6
 Paulsen, Gary. Soldier’s Heart. 1998. 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. 1861. Grades 7-10, F&P-V, RL 5.9
Perez, Norah A. Slopes of War. 1984. Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Curtis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia. Gettysburg, PA, 1863. Grades 8-10, F&P-, RL 5.9
 Philbrick, Rodman. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. 2009. Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army. mid 1860s. Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 5.6
Reeder, Carolyn. Across the lines. 1997. Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War. 1864. Grades 5-9, F&P-W, RL 5.9
 Rinaldi, Ann. An acquaintance with darkness. 1997. When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research. Washington, DC. 1865. Grades 7-10, F&P-, RL 4.8, 6.5
Rinaldi, Ann. Girl in blue. 2001. 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. 1861. Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 6.1
 Rinaldi, Ann. In my father’s house. 1993. For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their home. Grades 7-10, F&P-Y, RL 7.2
 Rinaldi, Ann. The last silk dress. 1988. During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets. Grades 7-10, F&P-, RL 8.1
 Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering all the bones. 2002. Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison. Georgia, 1864. Grades 6-8, F&P-Y, RL 4.5, 6.1

 Shaara, Jeff. The killer angels. 1974. A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view. 1863. YA-Adult, F&P-, RL 8.4 (Adult title. Series continues with Gods and Generals and The last full measure.)


 Sheinkin, Steve. Lincoln’s Grave Robbers. An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains. Nonfiction 973.709 SHE Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL 6.6
 Siegelson, Kim L. Trembling Earth. 2004. In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times. Georgia, 1864. Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL 5.6
 Silvey, Anita I’ll pass for your comrade: women soldiers in the Civil War. 2008. Examines the experiences of women who disguised themselves as men to fight on both sides in the Civil War. Describes why women went to war, how they passed for men, their wartime experiences, and what they did after the war. Nonfiction - 973.7 SIL Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 8.3, 10.7
 Spain, Susan Rosson. Deep Cut. 2006. Considered "slow" by his father, Lonzo tries his best to help his family in Culpeper, Virginia, during the Civil War and, in the process, comes to some decisions about how to live his life. Virginia. Grades 6-8, F&P-, 5.5
 Tarshis, Lauren. I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. 2013. In 1863, child slave Thomas and his sister Birdie journey north and meet up with Union soldiers who have orders to fight at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, PA. 1863. Grades 2-5, F&P-, RL 3.8
 Warren, Andrea. Under Siege: three children at the Civil War battle for Vicksburg. 2009. Tells the story of Lucy McRae and Willie Lord, survivors of the battle for Vicksburg in 1863, that describes how they lived in caves and underground bunkers as Union artillery bombarded the town for six week; and also tells of young Frederick Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, who witnessed the carnage of that battle. Nonfiction - 973.3 WAR Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL 7.9, 10.5
 Wells, Rosemary. Red moon at Sharpsburg. 2007. Even though the odds are against her and the Civil War has ruined her home and given her a view of the darker side of humanity, thirteen-year-old India Moody continues to aspire to become a scientist and attend Oberlin College. Virginia, 1861-. Grades 7&up, F&P-, RL 4.5
 Wisler, G. Clifton. Mr. Lincoln’s drummer. 1997. A fictional account of the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer, who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Grades 5-8, F&P-W, RL 6.4
 Wisler, G. Clifton. Red Cap. 1991. A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison. Grades 6-8, F&P-W, RL 6.8

Others

 Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. The buffalo and the Indians: a shared destiny. 2006. Traces the history of the dependence of the American Indians on the buffalo from prehistoric times to the present. Nonfiction - 978.004 PAT Grades 4-8, F&P-Z, RL 6.4, 7.4


Lester, Julius. Long journey home: stories from Black history. 1998. Presents six stories about African-Americans who contributed to the movement for freedom from slavery. Short Stories. Multiple time periods. Grades -9, F&P-, RL 8.1
 Myers, Walter Dean. The Glory Field. 1994. Lester, Julius. Long journey home: stories from Black history. 1998. Presents six stories about African-Americans who contributed to the movement for freedom from slavery. From Slavery to Reconstruction. Grades 7-10, F&P-X, RL 5.8
 Osborne, Linda. Traveling the freedom road: from slavery & the Civil War through Reconstruction. Presents a history of slavery in the United State, from the early establishment of the slave trade prior to the American Revolution, to the abolitionist movement, emancipation, and the upheavals of the Reconstructive period of the late nineteenth century. Nonfiction - 973.7 OSB Grades 6&up, F&P-W, RL 8.1, 10.6
Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune: free man. 1950. The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty. Massachusetts, 1725+. Grades 6-9, F&P-V, RL 5.8


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