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Civil War Historical Fiction
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The tamarack tree : a novel of the siege of Vicksburg
by Patricia Clapp
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
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The Red Badge of Courage and other stories
by Stephen Crane
Presents classic works of literature with a clean, modern aesthetic, including foil stamping on a heat-burnished cover, a smaller trim size and specially designed endpapers. Original.
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Annie, between the states
by Laura Elliott
While performing secret operations for the Confederates during the Civil War while her brother is away fighting, Annie is soon faced with a great personal conflict when she is befriended by a Union lieutenant who suddenly makes her think differently about the goals of the Confederacy and her role in the war. Reprint.
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Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith
Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy
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Assassin
by Anna Myers
In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Reprint.
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Riot
by Walter Dean Myers
In 1863, Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and the draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City
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The mirk and midnight hour
by Jane Nickerson
A tale inspired by the Scottish fairy tale "Tam Lin" finds 17-year-old Southern girl Violet rescuing an injured Union soldier and struggling to set aside her anger over her twin brother's death to keep the soldier alive in the face of dark magical adversaries.
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The river between us
by Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois
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The slopes of war
by Norah A. Perez
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. Reissue.
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Brotherhood
by Anne Westrick
A story of a family in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, during which many feared that the freed slaves would take the few jobs available, elucidates the climate of despair and fear that gave rise to a group known today as the KKK
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Cedar Mill Community Libraries 12505 NW Cornell Road Suite 13 Portland, Oregon 97229 503-644-0043library.cedarmill.org/
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