Topical/Civil War
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Escape by Night: A Civil War Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartIn Escape by Night, 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 loca
- Author: Myers, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050553
- Language: English
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Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story
$17.99 Add to cartEach of us has a “silent thunder” – a quiet desire that rumbles from deep-down. For eleven-year-old Summer and her older brother Rosco, their secret dreams seem far out of reach. Both are slaves on a … [more below]
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0786753641
- Language: English
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The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery
$18.95 Add to cartThe mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the mid… [more below]
- Author: Jones-Radgowski, Jehan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 154351281X
- Language: English
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Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights
$17.99 Read moreIn 1854, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Jennings, an African American schoolteacher, fought back when she was unjustly denied entry to a New York City streetcar, sparking the beginnings of the long struggle to ga… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1629799394
- Language: English
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The Everything Gang: A Journey of Friendship Beyond the Civil War
$16.99 Add to cartThe Civil War is over and thirteen-year-old Marty now begins the most dangerous expedition of his life. He and best friend Slim travel south to find the gravesite of their truest hero Tip. It might ju
- Series: The Deyo Hill #2
- Author: Kronwald, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1736215221
- Language: English
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Steamboat School
$18.99 Read moreWhen a Missouri law shuts down a school for Black students, one boy must find a path to bravery in this award-winning picture book, based on a true story of resilience.
James wasn’t excited to go to- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1423121961
- Language: English
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The Detective’s Assistant
$8.99 Add to cartBased on the extraordinary true story of America’s first-ever female detective, this fast-paced adventure recounts feats of daring and danger…including saving the life of Abraham Lincoln
Eleven-ye- Author: Hannigan, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05, 2016
- ISBN10: 0316403490
- Language: English
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Unbound: A Novel in Verse
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina’s Promise comes a breathtaking new novel that is her most transcendent and widely accessible work to date.
The day Grace is called fr… [more below]
- Author: Burg, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1338282085
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
$16.99 Add to cartLincoln’s Last Days is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic nights in American history–of how one gunshot changed the country forever. Adapted from Bill O’Reilly’s bestselling historical th
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1250044294
- Language: English
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If You Lived During the Civil War
$9.99 Read moreWhat do you know about the Civil War?
What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different?
Scholastic’s If You Lived… serie
- Series: If You
- Author: Patrick, Denise Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1338712799
- Language: English
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Pink and Say
$19.99 Read moreWhen Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times.
He was wo
I will tell it in Sheldon’s own words as nearly as I can.- Series: The Kindness Editions
- Author: Polacco, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0399226710
- Language: English
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartThey were both prewar failures–Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military
- Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148717
- Language: English
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitu- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 125085878X
- Language: English
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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival
$36.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022
From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently written, impeccably researched, and intensely moving” (The Wall Street Journal) reassessment of Abraham- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501199234
- Language: English
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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
$21.95 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the grim years of Southern reconstruction.
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0811770257
- Language: English
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Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
$28.95 Add to cartAs many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States’ Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos-Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in the … [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1880510723
- Language: English
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Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla Warrior
$33.99 Add to cartOne will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as
- Author: Petersen, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: September 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 1630269867
- Language: English
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Treasure Diaries: The Secret of Sarah’s Creek
$34.95 Add to cartA treasure hunt through the centuries…
Before you is a real life odyssey depicting lost riches and forgotten American history in Gloucester, Virginia, and the communities across the dividing river,
- Author: Owens, M. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954163754
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
