Allen, Merritt

JOHNNY REB The cavalry riding under Wade Hampton and Jeb Stuart see bitter action, starve, freeze, hate war more than anything, but see it through to the end.

1952

250 p.

Alphin, Elaine

GHOST CADET 12-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family'­s treasured gold watch.

1996

380 p.

Banks, Sara

ABRAHAM’S BATTLE A NOVEL OF GETTYSBURG In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.

1999

88 p.

Bartoletti, Susan

NO MAN'S LAND: A YOUNG SOLIDER'S STORY 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.

1999

168 p.

Beatty, Patricia

BE EVER HOPEFUL, HANNALEE In 1865 with the war recently over 14-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to Turn Homeward, Hannalee

1988

207 p.

Beatty, Patricia

EBEN TYNE, POWDERMONKEY A 13-year-old powdermonkey in the Confederate navy joins the crew of the ironclad Merrimack in a mission to break the Union blockade of Norfolk harbor.

1990

221 p.

Beatty, Patricia

CHARLEY SKEDADDLE During the Civil War, a 12-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.

1987

186 p.

Beatty, Patricia

JAYHAWKER 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 underground as a spy.

1991

202 p.

Beatty, Patricia

TURN HOMEWARD, HANNALEE 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in 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.

1984

180 p.

Beatty, Patricia

WHO COMES WITH CANNONS? In 1861 12-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.

1984

180 p.

Brenaman, Miriam

EVVY'S CIVIL WAR In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.

2002

209 p.

Calvert, Patricia

BIGGER When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, 12-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.

1994

137 p.

Calvert, Patricia

SOONER When the realization that his father may not return now that the Civil War is over, 13-year-old Tyler finds himself theman of their Missouri farm and the master of a new dog, the strikingly colored Sooner.

1996

166 p.

Clapp, Patricia

THE TAMARACK TREE An 18-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional harships of the 47-day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.

1986

211 p.

Climo, Shirley

A MONTH OF SEVEN DAYS When 12-year-old Zoe's Georgia home is taken over by Union soldiers, she uses all her ingenuity to drive them away.

1987

151 p.

Collier, James

WITH EVERY DROP OF BLOOD While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, 14-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.

1992

229 p.

Crane, Stephen

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE 1863 Virginia. Henry Fleming, a youth, goes to war, hoping to become not merely a man but a hero and in this way to save himself from mediocrity and self-doubt.

1993

246 p.

Crist-Evans, Craig

MOON OVER TENNESSEE: A BOY'S CIVIL WAR JOURNAL A thirteen-year-old boy sets off with his father from their farm in Tennessee to join the Confederate forces on their way to fight at Gettysburg. Told in the form of diary entries.

1999

60 p.

Denenberg, Barry

WHEN WILL THIS CRUEL WAR BE OVER? THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF EMMA SIMPSON, GORDONSVILLE, VIRGINIA, 1864 Dear America series The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia in which she describes the hardships and trials of her family during the Civil War.

1996

142 p.

Denslow, Sahron

ALL THEIR NAMES WERE COURAGE In 1862, as William Burd fights in the Civil War, he exchanges letters with his sister, Sallie, who is also writing to Confederate and Union generals asking about their horses in order to write a book.

2003

135 p.

Dixon, Frank

THE SECRET OF THE LOST TUNNEL The Hardy Boys series The Hardy Boys travel to the Deep South to vindicate a long-dead Confederate general, disgraced during the Civil War because he was accused of stealing hidden gold belonging to a bank.

1977

174 p.

Donahue, John

AN ISLAND FAR FROM HOME The 12-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 Confederater prisoner of war.

1995

178 p.

Duey, Kathleen

AMELIA CARRETT, BAYOU GRAND COEUR, LOUISIANA, 1863 American Diaries #12 When thirteen-year-old Amelina saves the life of a young Yankee spy found injured near her Louisiana home in 1863, the orphaned girl creates a dangerous situation for herself and her uncle.

1999

137 p.

Duey, Kathleen

EMMA EILEEN GROVE, MISSISSIPPI, 1865 American Diaries #2 Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.

1996

140 p.

Fleischman, Paul

BULL RUN 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.

1993

102 p.

Forman, James

BECCA’S STORY Becca Case has two beaux: Alex Forman, who offers Becca a stable Future, and charming Charlie Gregory, who promises adventure and laughter. When the Civil War erupts, Becca becomes a “soldier’s girl” praying that both Her boys will come through unharmed. Michigan.

1992

180 p.

Forrester, Sandra

SOUND THE JUBILEE Travel with 11-year-old Maddie and her family as they leave their Master’s house and try to find freedom and land on Roanoke Island during the Civil War. Things do not go smoothly for Maddie’s family on this journey as they discover bigots on both sides of the war. Eventually, they are forced to leave the Island and the land that they believed to be their own. Ultimately, Maddie’s intelligence and dreams help her create her own sense of place. As an assistant to a teacher from the North, she helps other self-freed slaves learn to read.

1995

183 p.

Fritz, Jean

BRADY There is suspicious activity around hermit Drover Hull's cabin. There is talk about runaway slaves. When the talkative Brady learns that his father, a minister, is helping to run a station on the Underground Railroad he realizes why their barn is burned. In a daring secret effort to transport a young escaped slave boy to safety, Brady shows he can be trusted. Pennsylvania, June 1836.

1987

223 p.

Gauch, Patricia Lee

THUNDER AT GETTYSBURG July 1, 1863. Instead of getting to watch a war, Tillie finds herself in the midst of it.

1975

46 p.

Gutman, Dan

ABNER & ME Cannons are blasting! Bullets are flying! Wounded soldiers are everywhere! Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday, a Civil War general, really invent the game of baseball?

2005

166 p.

Hahn, Mary Downing

HEAR THE WIND BLOW With their mother dead and their home burned, a 13-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War.

2003

212 p.

Hahn, Mary Downing

PROMISES TO THE DEAD 12-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.

2000

197 p.

Hansen, Joyce

I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY: THE DIARY OF PATSY, A FREED GIRL Dear American series 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.

1997

202 p.

Hansen, Joyce

OUT FROM THIS PLACE sequel to Which Way Freedom? A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves. For Sequel, read The Heart Calls Home.

1992

135 p.

Hansen, Joyce

WHICH WAY FREEDOM? 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.

1992

120 p.

Henty, G.A.

WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA In With Lee in Virginia Vincent Wingfield is the main character, one who lives on a plantation run by slaves, but who is strongly against being cruel to slaves. When he clashes with the overseer over Pearson having whipped a slave, Vincent never imagines it will cause such trouble. Soon, though,Vincent gets involved in the fate of the slave he saved, Tony. Will Vincent be able to help the man escape from the wicked Jackson? What about Tony's wife, who Jackson is selling for revenge? This book draws you right in plantation life in the 18hundreds, you will feel happy with the knowledge that 'your' slaves are safe, and will never even consider that you are doing wrong by keeping slaves. Vincent enlists as a volunteer after Virginia secedes and accomplishes many deeds of bravery.

1996

398 p.

Hesse, Karen

A LIGHT IN THE STORM THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF AMELIA MARTIN Dear America series 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.

1999

169 p.

Hill, Pamela

A VOICE FROM THE BORDER Living in the border state of Missouri during the Civil War, 15-year-old Reeves tries to understand her father’s decision regarding their slaves.

1998

232 p.

Holland, Isabelle

BEHIND THE LINES During the New York draft riots of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African American escape from an angry mob.

1994

194 p.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas

SALLY BRADFORD THE STORY OF A REBEL GIRL Her Story series A young girl experiences the cruelty, danger, and destruction of the Civil War in Virginia.

1997

123 p.

Houston, Gloria

MOUNTAIN VALOR With her father and brothers gone to serve in the Civil War and her mother sick, 13-year-old Valor ignores what is proper behavior for a girl, and takes matters into her ownhands and dresses as a boy to avenge a wrongdoing and defend her North Carolina family.

1994

236 p.

Hunt, Irene

ACROSS FIVE APRILS Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of his family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

1996

190 p.

Immel, Mary Blair

CAPTURED! A BOY TRAPPED IN THE CIVIL WAR 14-year-old Johnny Ables, pressed into service in the Confederate army, is forced to participate in a major Civil War battle and ends up in an Indiana prison camp. Based on the true story of a real boy.

2005

123 p.

James, Elizabeth

WATCHER IN THE PINEY WOODS American Girl History Mysteries #9 In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, 12-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.

2000

137 p.

Keehn, Sally

ANNA SUNDAY In 1863, 12-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.

2002

259 p.

Keith, Harold

RIFLES FOR WATIE 1861, Linn County, Kansas. The struggles and hardships faced by Jeff Bussey on his 300-mile escape route during the Civil War.

1957

332 p.

Love, D. Anne

THREE AGAINST THE TIDE After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, 12-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.

1998

158 p.

Lutz, Norma

DARIA SOLVES A MYSTERY Daria suspects that Corporal Harnden, a boarder in her mother's house during the Civil War, is hiding a secret of some kind, and Daria learns that with God's help even a young person such as herself can make a great difference.

2004

142 p.

Lutz, Norma

ELISE THE ACTRESS Climax of the Civil War Sisters in Time series Elise, an actress, struggles to keep her faith during the turmoil at the end of American's Civil War.

2005

141 p.

Lutz, Norma

THE REBEL SPY American Adventure series When the Civil War begins and their father leaves home to serve as a doctor for the Union army, David and Daria Fisk must help their mother support the family by running a boarding house. One of their boarders is a wounded soldier who Daria suspects is a rebel spy.

1998

142 p.

Lutz, Norma

WAR'S END American Adventure series

1998

142 p.

Lyon, George

HERE AND THEN Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with 12-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across and abyss of 133 years.

1994

114 p.

Lyons, Mary

DEAR ELLEN BEE 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.

2000

161 p.

Matas, Carol

THE WAR WITHIN A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexanmines her views regarding slavery and the war.

2001

151 p.

McMullan,Margaret

HOW I FOUND THE STRONG In the spring of 1861, on the heels of Abraham Lincoln's declaration of war on the South, a ten-year-old boy is eager to enlist and fight for the Confederacy, but he is too young and, instead, must deal with the war on his family's terms.

2004

136 p.

Murphy, Jim

THE JOURNAL OF JAMES EDMOND PEASE A CIVIL WAR UNION SOLDIER My Name is America series James Edmond Pease, a 16-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of “G” Company, which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War. Virginia 1863.

2001

151 p.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

A DANGEROUS PROMISE After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, 12-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri 1861.

2000

144 p.

O'Dell, Scott

THE 290 Jim learns that the boat he and his fellow apprentices are building in Liverpool is to be christened The Alabama and decides to join it.

1976

118 p.

Paulsen, Gary

A SOLDIER'S HEART: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR 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.

1998

106 p.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

AMY MAKES A FRIEND Portraits of Little Women series Desperate for art lessons, Amy hopes to manipulate her friendship with two other girls to get what she wants. Massachusetts 1850’s

1998

90 p.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

AMY'S STORY Portraits of Little Women series Because she desperately wants to have her picture taken, 10-year-old Amy finds a way to accumulate the necessary five dollars but then decides to spend it in another way.

1997

69 p.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

BETH MAKES A FRIEND Portraits of Little Women series Beth tries to help an impoverished Irish immigrant boy and his family by stealing a silver bowl from her great-aunt and giving it to the O’Neills to sell.

1998

87 p.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

BETH'S STORY Portraits of Little Women series Painfully shy Beth March is excited to be visiting New York City with her parents. The theater, opera, symphony, museums- Beth loves every minute of her adventure. She even meets Abraham Lincoln, and has the courage to tell him that women deserve the right to vote. But once she's back home in Massachusetts, none of Beth's schoolmates believe that she really spoke to Mr. Lincoln, or that she even met him. They know Beth is shy- too shy to talk to a man running for president of the United States. Even Beth's younger sister, Amy, thinks she's lying. Now Beth wishes she'd never been to New York...until she's surprised by an unexpected visitor.

1997

76 p.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

JO MAKES A FRIEND Portraits of Little Women series At the request of her great-aunt, 10-year-old Jo tries to befriend a sad and lonely blind girl who is visiting the neighborhood.

1998

92 p.

Pinkney, Andrea

SILENT THUNDER: A CIVIL WAR STORY In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.

1999

218 p.

Pryor, Bonnie

JOSEPH: 1861, A RUMBLE OF WAR American Adventures series After his stepfather becomes an abolitionist, ten-year-old Joseph struggles with his own thoughts about slavery as he sees its divisive power in his small Kentucky town.

1999

170 p.

Pryor, Bonnie

JOSEPH'S CHOICE American Adventures series sequel to Joseph: 1861 : a rumble of war In the early days of the Civil War, Joseph must decide whether to defend his stepfather's abolitionist and pro-Union beliefs or side with the slave owners and Southern rights supporters in his home town of Branson Mills, Kentucky.

2000

168 p.

Reeder, Carolyn

ACROSS THE LINES 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. Battle of Petersburg Crater, 1864, Virginia.

1997

219 p.

Reeder, Carolyn

BEFORE THE CREEKS RAN RED Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War.

2003

370 p.

Reeder, Carolyn

CAPTAIN KATE Determined to take her father’s coal-carrying barge on the C & O Canal from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in D.C., 12-year-old Kate learns hurtful truths about herself.

1999

207 p.

Reeder, Carolyn

SHADES OF GRAY At the end of the Civil War, 12-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.

1989

152 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH DARKNESS When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, 14-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research. Washington, D.C./Maryland.

1997

291 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

AMELIA'S WAR When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitatn ransom, 12-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town. 1861-64.

1999

263 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

GIRL IN BLUE To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, 14-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Mighigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and beomes a soldier on the battlefields of virginia as well as a Unioon spyworking in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

2001

300 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

THE LAST SILK DRESS During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.

1988

344 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

NUMBERING ALL THE BONES "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..."

2002

170 p.

Roddy, Lee

BURDEN OF HONOR Between Two Flags series While Gideon struggles to save the family farm and Emily faces charges of spying, their friend Nat attempts to find his mother and sisters even as the Civil War rages in Virginia.

1999

172 p.

Roddy, Lee

RISKING THE DREAM Between Two Flags series As thirteen-year-old Gideon seeks work in the Confederate capital, tensions at home are inflamed by President Lincoln's ultimatum to the rebelling states.

2000

175 p.

Roddy, Lee

ROAD TO FREEDOM Between Two Flags series Three young friends including an orphaned northener, a poor southern farm boy, and a secretly educated slave encounter diverse but intertwining experiences during the Civil War in Virginia in 1862.

1999

158 p.

Roddy, Lee

UPRISING AT DAWN Between Two Flags series Gideon Tugwell looks forward to the future when a job opening in the Confederate capital puts his dream of becoming a writer closer than ever. But then he overhears plans for a slave uprising threatening the lives of his friends Nat and Emily, and he knows he must stay home to help. But will there still be time to travel to the job interview?

2000

159 p.

Sappey, Maureen

LETTERS FROM VINNIE A fictionalized account of the Washington, D.C., Civil War years experienced by Vinnie Ream the sculptress, best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol building.

1999

248 p.

Seabrooke, Brenda

THE HAUNTING OF HOLROYD HILL When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, 11-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mystery of a Civil War-era ghost who is haunting their house.

1995

137 p.

Severance, John

BRAVING THE FIRE Jem joins the Union Army but is not sure of his motives or what he hopes to accomplish, particularly since the Civil War has divided his family and caused much violence and confusion in his life.

2002

148 p.

Stolz, Mary

A BALLAD OF THE CIVIL WAR Weary of the war, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the Civil War.

1997

54 p.

Wisler, G. Clifton

THE DRUMMER BOY OF VICKSBURG In this fact-based story, 14-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi. June/July 1863.

1997

122 p.

Wells, Rosemary

RED MOON AT SHARPSBURG As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.

2007

236 p.

Wisler, G. Clifton

MR. LINCOLN'S DRUMMER Recounts the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an 11-year- old Civil War drummer, who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1995

129 p.

Wisler, G. Clifton

RUN THE BLOCKADE During the Civil War, 14-year-old Henry finds adventure working as a ship’s boy and lookout aboard the “Banshee,” a new British ship attempting to get past the Yankee blockade of the Southern coast.

2000

119 p.