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CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865

Keeping Secrets

Joan Lowery Nixon

In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, b

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With Every Drop of Blood

Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier

While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.

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Who Was Who in the Civil War

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What People Wore During the American Revolution

Allison Stark Draper

This book describes what people wore in the days of the Revolution, discussing uniforms, women and children's clothes, and slaves' clothes.

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A Treasury of Civil War Tales

Webb Garrison

A collection of chronologically arranged stories that capture what the civil war was like for the people who lived through it.

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Three Against the Tide

D. Anne Love

After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with

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The Siege of Petersburg

Noah Andre Trudeau

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The Root Cellar

N. R. Jackson, Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than

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Mustang Flats

G. Clifton Wisler

When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.

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