The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
10 best books like The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War (Jim Murphy): Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, The River Between Us, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Dragon's Gate, The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War, Bound for Oregon, Elijah of Buxton, In the United States of Africa, Bonanza Girl, Circle Dogs
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0439353793 |
"I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933
By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142403105 |
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...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0395776082 |
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . .
Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0064404897 |
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.
In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields,...
| Author | Albert Marrin |
| ISBN | 0689312091 |
I love Albert Marrin. He has a great style that presents all the facts in a conversational, easy tone, without talking down. I've learned a lot of history through him already.
'The Yanks Are Coming' isn't any different. It's an engaging look at both the personal life of the Doughboy and the decisions...
| Author | Jean Van Leeuwen |
| ISBN | 0140383190 |
With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a two thousand mile trek to claim unchartered Oregon Territory. Crossing rough terrain and encountering hostile people, the Todds show their true pioneering spirit. But as winter draws near, will the...
| Author | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| ISBN | 0439023440 |
Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel for Scholastic features his trademark humor, compelling storytelling, and unique narrative voice.
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement...
In the United States of Africa
| Author | Abdourahman A. Waberi |
| ISBN | 0803222629 |
In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688122809 |
Mama is widowed, with two children and no job prospects. She decides to start a school out in the gold fields but is shortly and firmly disabused of all her city slicker notions. The story is narrated by Ann Katherine, who is a nicely written young teen. Her younger brother is the bane of her existence, naturally....
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0688154468 |
The circle dogs live in a big, square house with a big, square yard. See the dogs? See the circles? Mama calls them pooches. Papa calls them hounds. "I'm a dog!" says Big Sister. Baby is, too. And even the youngest reader will want to wiggle and bounce and dig through the day with the circle dogs....until...
Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the freshly formed United States faced. Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territories (bought from France at a mere four cents...
| Author | James Lileks |
| ISBN | 0307383075 |
This is a funny book, although sometimes the humor is just a bit too vulgar for me. I love Lilek's website - The Gallery of Regrettable Food. There's been times I've gotten on that website late at night and literally cried, I was laughing so hard. It's been a sure fire cheer-me-up. This is, so far, the only...
| Author | Margaret Davidson |
| ISBN | 0590442309 |
Summary:
This book is an inspiring biography of of Dr. Martin Luther King that explains the historical context and meaning of his famous I have a Dream speech and discusses the Civil Rights Movement.
Characteristics that Support the Genre:
This book is considered a biography because...
A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890
| Author | Joy Hakim |
| ISBN | 0195153324 |
Covering a time of great hope and amazing change, Reconstruction and Reform is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land...
