Civil War Fiction for Children and Young Adults

Prepared by Dr. Carolyn Gabb

March 2005

*picturebook

Title

Author

Illustrator

Publisher

Date

Abraham Lincoln:  Letters from a Slave Girl

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

 

Winslow Press

2001

Across Five Aprils

Hunt, Irene

 

Grosset/

Tempo

1986

After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Diary, Book 2

Pope, Mary Osborne

 

Scholastic

2002

Alec's Primer

Walter, Mildred Pitts

Johnson, Larry*

Univ. Press of New England

2004

Alice Rose & Sam

Lasky, Kathryn

 

Hyperion

1999

Amelia's War

Rinaldi, Ann

 

Scholastic

1999

Amelina Carrett, Bayou Grand Coeur (Louisiana 1863)

Duey, Kathleen

 

Aladdin

1999

Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom: A Thirst for Freedom

Myers, Walter Dean

 

Dutton

1998

Anna Sunday

Keehn, Sally

 

Philomel

2002

Ballad of the Civil War (A)

Stolz, Mary

 

Harper Collins

1997

Barefoot:  Escape on the Underground Railroad

Edwards, Pamela

Cole, Henry*

Harper Collins

1997

Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee

Beatty, Patricia

 

Morrow Junior

1988

Becca's Story

Forman, James

 

Atheneum

1992

Before the Creeks Ran Red

Reeder, Carolyn

 

Harper Collins

2003

Behind the Lines

Holland, Isabelle

 

Scholastic

1994

Bigger

Calvert, Patricia

 

Aladdin

2003

Black, Blue & Gray:  African Americans in the Civil War

Brooks, Victor

 

Chelsea House

2000

Blue and the Gray

Bunting, Eve

 

Scholastic

1997

Bound for the North Star:  True Stories of Fugitive Slaves

Frodin, Dennis

Frodin, Dennis*

Clarion

2000

Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories

Marten, James A.

 

Oxford Univ. Press

2002

Braving the Fire

Severance, John B.

 

Clarion

2002

Bright Freedom's Song: a story of the underground railroad

Houston, Gloria

 

Harcourt Brace

1998

Bull Run

Fleischmann, Paul

 

Harper

Collins

1993

Bushwacker: A Civil War Adventure (The)

Garrity, Jennifer

 

Peachtree

1999

Caleb's Choice

Wisler, G. Clifton

 

Dutton

1996

Captain Kate

Reeder, Carolyn

 

Avon

1999

Cecil's Story

Lyon, George Ella

Catalanotto, Peter*

Orchard

1991

Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir

Stolz, Mary

 

Knopf

1994

Charley Skedaddle

Patricia Beatty

 

William Morrrow

1987

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nelllie Lee Love

McKissack, Pat

 

Scholastic

2000

Dangerous Promise (A)

Nixon, Joan

 

Gareth Stevens

2000

Dear Ellen Bee:  a civil war scrapbook of two Union spies

Lyons, Mary

 

Atheneum

2000

Diary of a Drummer Boy

Brill, Marlene

 

Millbrook

1998

Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War

Turner, Ann Warren

 

Harper

Collins

1998

Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (The)

Wisler, G. Clifton

 

Lodestar Books

1997

Dust from Old Bones

Forrester, Sandra

 

Morrow Junior

1999

Eben Tyne, Powermonkey

Beatty, Patricia

 

Morrow Junior

1990

Education of Mary:  a Little Miss of Color (1832)

Rinaldi, Ann

 

Hyperion

2000

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Van Lew: Southern Belle, Union Spy

Zeinert, Karen

 

Dillon

1995

Evvy's Civil War

Brenaman, Miriam

 

Putnam

2002

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Connelly, Bernadine

Buchanan, Yvonne*

Rabbit Ears

1997

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Winter, Jeannette

Winter, Jeannette*

Random

1988

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Robinet, Harriette

Nickens, Bess*

Atheneum

1998

Freedom's Wings

[My America Series]

Wyeth, Sharon

 

Scholastic

2001

Ghost Cadet (The)

Alphin, Elaine

 

HenryHolt

1991

Ghost Soldier

Alphin, Elaine

 

HenryHolt

2001

Ghost Wore Gray (The)

Coville, Bruce

 

Yearling

1988

Ghosts of the Civil War

Harness, Cheryl

 

Simon & Schuster

2001

Girl in Blue

Rinaldi, Ann

 

Scholastic

2001

Hear the Wind Blow

Hahn, Mary Downing

 

Clarion

2003

Here and Then

Lyon, George Ella

 

Orchard

1994

How I Found the Strong

McMullan, Margaret

 

Houghton-Mifflin

2004

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly:  the Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

Hansen, Joyce

 

Scholastic

1997

In My Father’s House

Rinaldi, Ann

 

Scholastic

1994

Island Far From Home (An)

Donahue, John

 

Carolrhoda

1995

Jayhawker

Beatty, Patricia

 

Morrow Jr.

1991

Jip: His Story

Paterson, Katherine

 

Lodestar

1996

Jonkonnu: a Story from the Sketchbook of Winslow Homer

Littlesugar, Amy

Schoenherr, Jon*

Philomel

1997

Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier (The)

Murphy, Jim

 

Scholastic

1998

Journal of Rufus Rowe:  Witness to the Battle of Fredericksburg

Hite, Sid

 

Scholastic

2003

Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs

Lyons, Mary

 

Simon Pulse

1996

Lightning Time:  A Novel

Rees, Douglas

 

Puffin

1999

L’il Dan, the Drummer Boy

Beard, Romare

Beard, Romare

Simon & Schuster

2003

Matty’s War

Thomas, Carroll

 

Smith & Kraus

1998

Miles’ Song

McGill, Alice

 

Scholastic

2002

Moon Over Tennessee:  A Boy’s Civil War Journal

Crist-Evans, Craig

 

Houghton Mifflin

2003

Mustang Flats

Wisler, G. Clifton

 

Puffin

1999

My Brother’s Keeper:  Virginia’s Civil War Diary (Book 1)

Pope, Mary Osborne

 

Scholastic

2002

My Brother’s Keeper:  A Civil War Story

Johnson, Nancy

 

Down East

1997

My Home is Over Jordan

Forrester, Sandra

 

Lodestar

1997

Nettie’s Trip South

Turner, Ann

Himler, Ronald*

Simon & Schuster

1987

Nightjohn

Paulsen, Gary

 

LaurelLeaf

1995

North by Night:  A Story of the Underground Railroad

Ayres, Katherine

 

Delacorte

1998

Numbering All the Bones

Rinaldi, Ann

 

Hyperion

2002

On Winter’s Wind

Hermes, Patricia

 

Little, Brown

1995

Pink and Say

Polacco, Patricia

Polacco, Patricia*

Philomel

1994

Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg

Crisp, Marty

 

Philomel

2001

Promise Quilt (The)

Ransom, Candice F.

Beier, Ellen*

Walker & Co

1999

Promises to the Dead

Hahn, Mary Downing

 

Clarion

2000

River Between Us (The)

Peck, Richard

 

Dial

2003

Run Away Home

McKissack, Pat

 

Scholastic

1997

Run the Blockade

Wisler, G. Clifton

 

HarperCollins

2000

Sarny

Paulsen, Gary

Pinkney, Jerry*

Delacorte

1997

School for Pompey Walker (A)

Rosen, Michael J.

Robinson, Aminah*

HarcourtBrace

1995

Secret to Freedom (The)

Vaughan, Marcia K.

Johnson, Larry*

Lee & Low

2001

Send One Angel Down

Schwartz, Virginia

 

Holiday House

2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers

Paulsen, Gary

 

Delacorte

1998

Sooner

Calvert, Patricia

 

Atheneum

1998

Sound the Jubilee

Forrester, Sandra

 

Lodestar

1995

Spy in the Sky

Karr, Kathleen

Yezerski, Thomas*

Hyperion

1997

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Hopkinson, Dorothy

Ransome, James

Knopf

2003

There’s a Dead Person following My Sister Around

Vande Velda, Vivian

 

Harcourt

1999

Three Against the Tide

Love, D. Anne

 

Holiday

1998

Treemonisha

Medearis, Angela S.

Bryant, Michael*

Holt

1995

Trembling Earth

Siegelson, Kim L.

 

Philomel

2004

True North:  A Novel of the Underground Railroad

Lasky, Kathryn

 

Blue Sky Press

1996

Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses

Robinet, Harriette

 

Atheneum

2003

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys

Howard, Elizabeth F.

Lyons, E.B.*

Simon & Schuster

1999

Wagon (The)

Johnston, Tony

Ransome, James*

Tambourine

1996

War Within: A Novel of the Civil War (The)

Matas, Carol

 

Simon &

Schuster

2001

We Played Marbles

Seymour, Tres

Andreasen, Dan*

Orchard

1998

Which Way Freedom

Hansen, Joyce

 

Walker & Co

1986

William Parker

Rosenberg, John

 

Millbrook

1996

With Every Drop of Blood

Collier, Christopher and James L.

 

Delacorte

1994