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Lexile/Reading Level
340L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Clara Barton | Military and Wars | Nurse | Soldiers | Wounded
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Children
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Civil War on Sunday (Magic Tree House #21)

Author: Osborne, Mary PopePart of a Series: Magic Tree House

Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!
Cannon fire!
That’s what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet—and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives!

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern
Date
1700s
Topic
Bonnie Prince Charles | Children | Smuggling | Wounded
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book

Flame colored taffeta

Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary

This lively adventure is the story of smugglers on the Sussex coast and an emissary of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

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Lexile/Reading Level
800L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Choices | Friendship | Loyalty | Military and Wars | Wounded
Geographic Region
United States - America | Virginia
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book

Annie, Between the States

Author: Elliott, Laura Malone

Annie Sinclair’s Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend the South, while Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers. When she develops a romantic connection with a Union Army lieutenant, Annie’s view of the war broadens. Then an accusation calls her loyalty into question. A nation and a heart divided force Annie to choose her own course.

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Lexile/Reading Level
630L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Battles | Choices | Family Relationships | Friendship | Hiding | Military and Wars | Seige of Vicksburg | Sieges | Soldiers | Wounded
Geographic Region
MIssissippi | United States - America
Main Character
Family
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

My Vicksburg

Author: Rinaldi, Ann

Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. Although many of the townspeople suffer from a lack of food, the Corbetts receive extra rations from Claire Louise’s brother, Landon, a doctor with the Union army. When Claire Louise discovers her brother tending to a Confederate soldier who is responsible for Robert E. Lee’s “lost order” (causing the South to lose the Battle of Antietam), she is forced to make a difficult choice between family and friends.
Award-winning historical novelist Ann Rinaldi paints a story of family, courage, and secrets during the forty-seven-day siege of Vicksburg, a battle that has sometimes been ignored in history because it ended the same day as the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Lexile/Reading Level
650L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Hospitals | Military and Wars | Veterans | Wounded
Geographic Region
Kansas | United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
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ALA Notable Children's Book | ALA's Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults | Golden Kite Honor Book Award | Other Awards
Format
Book

After the Dancing Days

Author: Rostkowski, Margaret

Is War A Thing To Be Forgotten?

That’s what Annie’s mother would like to do. She wants to forget the pain and heartache—and to keep it away from Annie, too. But Annie cannot forget the death of her favorite uncle, who was killed in France. She cannot forget Andrew, the angry young veteran she meets at the hospital where her father works. Can Annie find the courage to help Andrew? And will she ever be able to make sense of a war that took so much from so many?

Drawn to the Kansas hospital where her father cares for wounded World War One veterans, Annie meets Andrew, a disfigured young soldier. As Annie helps Andrew slowly adjust to his wounds, she also faces devastating truths about war and the complex world of adulthood. ‘A girl on the brink of womanhood comes to terms with the brutal aftereffects of war in an absorbing novel.’

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grades

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Diaries | Friendship | Military and Wars | Survival | Wounded
Geographic Region
Europe | France
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Book

Trenches, The: Billy Stevens, The Western Front, 1914-1918 (My Story: Boys)

Author: Eldridge, JimPart of a Series: My Story: Boys

Sixteen-year-old Billy Stevens joins the military to “kick the Kaiser back to Germany”, he lies about his age to join up, and is initially disappointed when he is assigned to the Royal Engineers. Soon enough, he is sent to the Front, and the terrible sights and sounds of the trenches.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-9 Grades

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Death and Loss | Letters | Military and Wars | Soldiers | Wounded
Geographic Region
Canada | Europe | France
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Hold the Oxo: A Teenage Soldier Writes Home (Canadians at War #6)

Author: Brooker, Marion Fargey

Canada was young during the First World War, and with as many as 20,000 underage soldiers leaving their homes to join the war effort, the country’s army was, too. Jim, at 17, was one of them, and he penned countless letters home. But these weren’t the writings of an ordinary boy. They were the letters of a lad who left a small farming community for the city on July 15, 1915, a boy who volunteered to serve with the 79th Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders.

Jim’s letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing instead on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training the horses, and the price of hogs. Rarely do these letters, especially those to his mother and father, mention the mud and rats, the lice and stench of the trenches, or the night duty of cutting barbed wire in no man’s land. For 95 years his letters remained in a shoebox decorated by his mother.

Jim was just 18 when he was wounded and died during the Battle of the Somme. Hold the Oxo! tells the story that lies between the lines of his letters, filling in the historical context and helping us to understand what it was like to be Jim.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grades

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Revolutionary War
Date
Late 1700s
Topic
Military and Wars | Rogues | Spies | Wounded
Geographic Region
Pennsylvania | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Ebook

Accidental Spy

Author: Lindermuth, J. R.

Dandy Dan McCracken is a rogue wandering around eastern Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. Wounded and on the run from the law, he’s rescued and nursed to health by the lovely ward of Benedict Arnold’s procurement officer. When the girl’s husband returns from the front, McCracken falls in with British spies. He switches sides again as a result of love and becomes a hero, not through choice but circumstance.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 2-5 Grades

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War I
Topic
Death and Loss | Military and Wars | Wounded
Geographic Region
Europe | France
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Brave Soldier, A

Author: Debon, Nicolas

In August 1914, when war breaks out in Europe, Canadians rush to join the army to fight with the Allies, expecting to be home by Christmas. Everyone thinks the war will be over in a few months. But by the time the war ends in 1918, nearly 10 million soldiers and 13 million civilians are dead. The especially brutal conditions the soldiers face are portrayed in a spare, straightforward style that neither glorifies war nor dwells on the horror. No one reading this book will come away with anything other than sorrow for the tragedy and futility of “the war to end all wars.” Debon’s well-researched and realistic illustrations add a wealth of texture and detail to this story.

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Lexile/Reading Level
520L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Animals | Christian | Dogs | Escapes | Military and Wars | Wounded
Geographic Region
Georgia | United States - America
Main Character
Animal | Boy(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Escape by Night: A Civil War Adventure

Author: Myers, Laurie

Ten-year-old Tommy and his sister Annie are intrigued by the new soldiers arriving in their Georgia town. Since the Civil War started, wounded men waiting to be treated at the local church-turned-hospital have been coming in by droves. When Tommy sees a soldier drop his notebook, he sends his dog, Samson, to fetch it. Tommy soon meets the soldier and is faced with the hardest decision he’s ever had to make: whether or not he should help a Yankee escape to freedom.
Filled with intriguing suspense and tackling difficult questions about slavery, this story, told in accessible short chapters, will appeal to history buffs as well as those who appreciate a faithful dog.

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2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
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