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10 best books like Bull Run (Paul Fleischman): The River Between Us, Who Comes with Cannons?, Evvy's Civil War, The Tamarack Tree, Shades of Gray, With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War, How I Found the Strong, Worth, The Burning Time, Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World

The River Between Us
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0142403105
The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt family together. Then one night a mysterious girl arrives on...
Who Comes with Cannons?
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688110282
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
Evvy's Civil War
AuthorMiriam Brenaman
ISBN0399237135
On her fourteenth birthday in June of 1861, spunky Evelyn Chamberlyn finds herself stuffed into a corset, a dress with hoops and a hairstyle so ornate she calls it the Edifice. It is time for her to be introduced to society-no more climbing fences and jumping into streams. She is expected to be a lady now....
The Tamarack Tree
AuthorPatricia Clapp
ISBN0140324062
Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures...
Shades of Gray
AuthorCarolyn Reeder
ISBN0689838662
COURAGE WEARS MANY FACES The Civil War may be over, but for twelve-year-old Will Page, the pain and bitterness haven't ended. How could they have, when the Yankees were responsible for the deaths of everyone in his entire immediate family?And now Will has to leave his comfortable home in the Shenandoah...
With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War
AuthorJames Lincoln Collier
ISBN0440219833
Johnny made a promise to his father, who was wounded fighting for the South. He promised to take care of the family and not run off to fight. Without Pa, Johnny's family can barely scrape by. But when there's an offer to take his mules and wagon on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops, Johnny can't resist....
How I Found the Strong
AuthorMargaret McMullan
ISBN0553494929
In 1861 Frank “Shanks” Russell wishes he was old enough to fight for the South alongside his pa and big brother. But Frank is too young, skinny, and weak, and is left behind with his mother and grandparents. Life in Mississippi was simple before the war between North and South. Now Frank’s boyhood...
Worth
AuthorA. LaFaye
ISBN0689857306
After Nathaniel's leg is crushed in an accident, his father brings home an orphan boy, John Worth, to help work the fields. Worth has come to Nebraska from New York City on the Orphan Train, which brings homeless children west to find new lives.
Nathaniel feels increasingly jealous of the boy who...
The Burning Time
AuthorCarol Matas
ISBN1551436248
Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life...
Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World
AuthorKatrin Hyman Tchana
ISBN0823419991
This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. There is tremendous variety in this volume including the stories of Kuay Yin, the compassionate Buddhist goddess; Durga, the fierce Hindu warrior goddess; lx Chel, an ancient...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
Morning Girl
AuthorMichael Dorris
Set in an island in the Bahamas on the eve of Christopher Columbus's fateful landing in 1492, this story following the daily lives of two siblings, Morning Girl and Star Boy, providing a window into Taino culture.

This story is very gentle, and the writing is simple yet powerful. Told in alternating...
The Fighting Ground
AuthorAvi
ISBN0064401855
April 3, 1778He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin.

So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join them. He doesn't realize...
Jip: His Story
AuthorKatherine Paterson
Jip: His Story, Katherine Paterson
Jip, His Story, is a 1996 children's book, written by American novelist Katherine Paterson. Set in Vermont, during the 1850s, it focuses on a 12-year-old orphan, named Jip, who was abandoned as an infant, and mistaken for a gypsy because of his skin color. Jip...
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley
AuthorSally M. Walker
ISBN1575058308
On February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley made history as the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. Soldiers on the shore waited patiently after seeing the submarine's return signal. But after several days, the ship had failed to return. What had gone wrong? In 1995, after over 130 years of searching,...
The Art of Keeping Cool
AuthorJanet Taylor Lisle
ISBN0689837887
The War At Home

Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore. Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town. And for Robert, a more personal...
The Bomb
AuthorTheodore Taylor
ISBN0380727234
Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to and, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began . . .Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his home as a site for atomic...
Two Suns in the Sky
AuthorMiriam Bat-Ami
ISBN0142300365
Reviewed for THC Reviews
"4.5 stars" It is always such a joy to me when a random book buy turns out to be a fabulous read. I picked up Two Suns in the Sky at the library book sale for only fifty cents, but had I known how good it was going to be, I would have been happy to pay full-price. This young adult novel...
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
AuthorHarriette Gillem Robinet
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his brother, Gideon, have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth; their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty...
Tight Times
AuthorBarbara Shook Hazen
ISBN0140504427
Daddy said tight times are why we don't have roast beef on Sunday.

Instead we have soupy things with lima beans. I hate lima beans. If I had a dog, I'd make him eat mine.

I'm here to tell you about an amazing book.

This book is about a little boy who really wants a dog. He keeps asking...
Charlie Anderson
AuthorBarbara Abercrombie
ISBN0689801149
Charlie, a fuzzy gray cat, walked out of the woods one evening and into Elizabeth's and Sarah's hearts. Now he sleeps on their beds, lets them dress him up in doll clothes, and laps up warm milk on chilly nights. But where does Charlie go during the day?
It's not until a storm keeps Charlie away one night...
The Game of Silence
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0064410293
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an...
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