US Civil War
Freeman Walker
Sent by his American slaveowner father to England at a young age to be educated as a free man, James…
Sweetsmoke
By 1862, a slave named Cassius has worked his entire life for the white plantation owner of Sweetsmoke. Because of…
Many a River
In 1855, an Arkansas sharecropper family is attacked by Comanche Indian raiders while traveling through North Texas looking for good…
Arizona War: A Colton Brothers Saga
The three Colton Brothers get caught up in the American Civil War in 1861 while local Apache uprisings continue to…
Billy Boy
Editors' choice
This is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of the true Billy Laird, the only American Civil War soldier…
Juliet’s Moon
In the latter years of the Civil War, all the niceties and structure of 12-year-old Juliet Bradshaw’s life are turned…
March Toward the Thunder
Prolific author Joseph Bruchac tells the story of a 15-year-old Canadian Abenaki Indian boy who enlists in the Union Army…
Hard Trail to Follow
In Texas, several years after the American Civil War, former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard volunteers to track down an escaped…
This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard University, provides us with an extraordinarily well-researched and superbly written…
Listen to the Mockingbird
Every good mystery begins with a murder, and Penny Rudolph’s Listen to the Mockingbird doesn’t disappoint: a young stranger…
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