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Iron thunder : the battle between the Monitor & the Merrimac : a Civil War novel
by Avi

Accompanied by period illustrations, photographs, and maps, this exciting historical novel follows thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll as he, after his father is killed during the Civil War, finds work at a bustling ironworks to help support his family, which makes him a target of Confederate spies. Reprint.

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

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.

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.

Across five Aprils : Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1885
by Irene Hunt

Each succeeding spring brings Jethro Creighton, a brave, young Illinois boy, closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.

Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland

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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

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.

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

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.

Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers : a novel of the Civil War
by Gary Paulsen

At fifteen, Charley Goddard ran off to fight in the Civil War, not knowing what war truly meant, and he came back a changed person at the age of nineteen due to everything he had seen and experienced while living a soldier's life. Reprint.

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

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.

The Last Silk Dress
by Ann Rinaldi

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Bloody times : the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis
by James L. Swanson

Based on the author's adult title, Bloody Crimes, a teen adaption brings to light the end of the Civil War, which includes President Lincoln's assassination and funeral, and the manhunt for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. 40,000 first printing.

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