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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
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English
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a classic novel that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. Set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the story follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong and determined young woman who is forced to navigate the challenges of war, love, and loss. Throughout the novel, Scarlett's character undergoes significant growth and transformation as she learns to adapt...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Since it was first published in 1974, "The Killer Angels" has become the most belove, widely-read Civil War novel of the post-World War II era. Shaara's unforgettable novel served as the basis for the acclaimed feature film Gettysburg, has sold millions of copies, and inspired the bestselling Civil War novels Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure by his son, Jeff Shaara. After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print,...
3) Bull Run
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
5) The titans
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English
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This fifth volume of The Kent Family Chronicles depicts the effects of the American Civil War on various family members.
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English
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Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies -- attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie -- struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as "a Christmas gift," Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them.In this rousing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 62
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English
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""The greatest of our Civil War novels" (New York Times) reissued for a new generation As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation's bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held...
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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A novel of the Civil War in which a young Southerner impregnates a black slave. The family quickly sells her, a white cotton trader marries and passes her off as white. But the girl was already married and her black husband runs away to join the Northern army in a bid to reclaim her..
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Series
Gettysburg trilogy volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Instead of attacking on the third day, General Lee flanks the Federals, cutting them off from Washington, D.C. and their supplies. Staring at the face of disaster, the Federals are forced into a desperate fight to survive.
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Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1862, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
15) Shades of gray
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.
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Series
American diaries volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.
18) Band of angels
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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
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Amantha Starr, born and raised by a loving father on a plantation in pre-Civil War Kentucky, embarks on a lifelong search for answers about her tangled past when she learns, upon her father's death, that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is about to be sold into servitude.
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Between two flags volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Gideon and Emily find their lives intertwined with that of a slave boy who is attempting to escape to the North.
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Series
Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Captured by the Confederate Army in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A.G. Hamilton are sent to infamous Libby Prison, where they resolve to escape tortuous conditions.