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Lexile/Reading Level
1070L Recommended for 5-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

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Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier: Virginia, 1863 (My Name Is America)

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Newbery Honor author Jim Murphy portrays the brave and rigorous army life of a 16-year-old Union soldier who has been ordered by his commanding officer to keep a written record of G Company during the most brutal years of the Civil War.
— Amazon

James Edmond, a sixteen-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.
— Library of Congress

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA - Recommended for 3-6 Grade

Road to War: A First World War Girl’s Diary, 1916-1917 (My Story: Girls)

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It’s 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree’s brother goes missing in action, she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war.

Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches.

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