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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
670L
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Twelve-year-old Charlie O'Leary signs aboard the USS Varuna as it steams its way toward the mouth of the Mississippi River to fight the Confederate Navy ... Charlie hopes to find his brother Johnny among the Varuna's fleet. But will their ships survive the awesome Battle of New Orleans?"--Page 4 of cover.
7) Pink and Say
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
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Carolrhoda Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the year 1864, young Addy & her mother try to escape slavery by fleeing to the North after her father is sold again & they are separated. After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. Addy Walker is a proud, courageous girl growing up in 1864, during the midst of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
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.
15) Firebrand
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Description
In 1848 Vienna, fifteen-year-old August Bondi is forced to emigrate to America, leaving behind his comrades in the revolution. In his new country he is confronted by the evil of slavery, and sets out for Bleeding Kansas to join forces with the notorious John Brown.
16) Rifles for Watie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
"Plagued by bush wachers, Jeff Bussey leaves his Kansas homeland for the life of a Union soldier, fights with the kansas volunteers and later as a spy. unusually dramatic rendering of a little-kbnown aspect of the Civil War in the West.
17) Bull Run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
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