I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

Joyce Hansen

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. Gr. 4 - 8.

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Titles in this series are shelved as jDEA [DEAR AMERICA]

An Island Far From Home

John Donahue

The twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the fighting in Fredericksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war. Gr. 5 - 7.

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Thunder at Gettysburg

Patricia Lee Gauch

Fourteen-year-old Tillie becomes involved in the tragic battle of July 1-3, 1863. Gr. 2 - 4.

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

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. Gr. 5 - 8.

My Brother's Keeper

Mary Pope Osborne

In 1863, as the Civil War approaches her quiet town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Virginia records in a journal the horrible things she witnesses before, during, and after the Battle of Gettysburg. Gr. 3 - 5.

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Titles in this series are shelved under jMY A [MY AMERICA]

Shades of Gray

Carolyn Reeder

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 considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war. Gr. 4 - 7.