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McMullan, Margaret. How I Found the Strong: A Civil War Story. 2004. (YA Fiction Mcmul.M) 
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking. (MS)
Myers, Anna. Assassin. 2005. (YA Fiction Myers.A) 
Bella, a young White House seamstress and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. (MS, HS)
Myers, Walter Dean. Riot. 2009. (YA Fiction Myers.W)
In 1863, fifteen-year-old 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 a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City. (MS, HS)
Olmstead, Robert. Coal Black Horse. 2007. (YA Fiction Olmst.R & Fiction Olmst.R)
Fourteen-year-old Robey’s mother does the unthinkable: she sends her only son to find her husband, a Civil War soldier, on the battlefield, after having a premonition. His only companion is a powerful coal black horse that helps him navigate his way through the destruction of war. (HS)
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's Heart : A Novel Of The Civil War. 1998. (YA Fiction Pauls.G & J Pauls.G)
When the Civil War breaks out in 1861, 15-year-old Charley eagerly enlists. He is hardly prepared for horrors and anguish of Civil War combat. (MS, HS)
Peck, Richard. The River Between Us. 2003. (YA Fiction Peck.R & J Peck.R)
During the early days of the Civil War, 15-year-old Tilly’s mother takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. (MS, HS)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Silent Thunder. 1999. (YA Fiction Pinkn.A)
Summer and her older brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War. (MS)
Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. 2007. (YA Fiction Rinal.A)
When President Lincoln issues his Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery, 14-year-old Luli’s family makes decisions to withhold this information from their slaves, with tragic consequences. (MS)
Rinaldi, Ann. Sarah's Ground. 2004. (YA Fiction Rinal.A)
Eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy from New York state comes to Virginia to work at Mount Vernon, the beloved family home of George Washington in 1861. She is determined to oversee the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and she also falls in love with her future husband, Upton Herbert. Includes historical notes. (MS, HS)
Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels : A Novel. 1974. (Fiction Shaar.M & CD Fiction Shaar.M)
Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize winning civil war novel brings a fresh perspective to Robert E. Lee and others in this recreation of the Battle of Gettysburg. (HS)
Siegelsen, Kim. Trembling Earth. 2004. (YA Fiction Siege.K)
Two boys making their way through Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp in 1864 have opposite objectives; one is a slave running toward freedom, and the other is hoping to collect the reward for capturing him. (MS, HS)
Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon At Sharpsburg : A Novel. 2007. (YA Fiction Wells.R & YA CD Fiction Wells.R)
When the Civil War breaks out, everything changes for India, a Southern teen: her school closes, her best friend’s family flees to Ohio, and her father goes missing from the Confederate Ambulance Corps. She relies on her wits and courage to survive, when everything she knows is threatened by the war.
Wilson, John. Death On The River. 2009. (YA Fiction Wilso.J)
Young Jake Clay joins the Union Army in the spring of 1864. His dreams of glory vanish, when he is wounded and taken prisoner in his first battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia, and confined to the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, where 30,000 soldiers face violence, disease and starvation. Frightened and disillusioned, Jake takes up with Billy Sharp, an unscrupulous opportunist who shows him how to survive, no matter what the cost. By the war's end Jake's sleep is haunted by the ghosts of those who have died so he could live. When the camp is liberated, Jake and Billy head north on a Mississippi riverboat. Unknown to Jake, the fateful journey up river will come closer to killing him than Andersonville did, but it will also provide him with his one chance at redemption.
Compiled by Christie Chandler-Stahl
Updated: April, 2010
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