The ghost of Willie, President Abraham Lincoln's older son, transports Lindsey back to his own time, where she sees and hears many things from both sides of the Civil War. Includes passages from contemporary documents, a glossary, biographical sketches, and a bibliography.
Wind on the River (Jamestown's American Portraits ) (Jamestown's American Portraits (Pb))
by Laurie Lawlor
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, where he confronts his prejudices and learns what heroism really means.
Fourteen-year-old Gideon Tell, a photography spy for the Union Army, infiltrates Confederate-held Vicksburg to gather intelligence for General Grant while trying to evade suspicious Confederates, civilian refugees, war profiteers, and other shady characters and learns, in the process, about the complexity of human nature.
When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.
A Dangerous Promise (Orphan Train Adventures)
by Joan Lowery Nixon
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
When Ma dies, a brother and sister leave the family's northern Virginia farm to search for their father who has joined the Confederate forces at Manassas battlefield.
House of Spies (House of Spies, #7) (White Mane Kids)
by Margaret Whitman Blair
Swept back to 1861 through the medium of Civil War photographs, Rob and Sarah find themselves in Washington, D.C., just after the Battle of Manassas and are arrested as enemy spies.
In 1857, having arrived in Minnesota Territory on her father's steamboat, 12-year-old Libby continues to harbour the runaway slave boy Jordan while worrying about a fugitive who has escaped from the local prison.
Inspired by a true story, the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her. Like her family and the other slaves on the farm, Ann works from sunup to sundown and obeys the orders of her master. Then one day, Ann's family -- the only joy she knows -- is gone. Just 12 years old, Ann is overcome by grief, struggling to get through each day. And her only hope of stealing back her...
The Swindler's Treasure (The riverboat adventures, #4) (Freedom Seekers, #4)
by Lois Walfrid Johnson
Book 4 of The Riverboat Adventures. Jordan is asked to take a carpetbag full of money to Chicago, where it will help more fugitive slaves. When the bag is found full of counterfeit money, Libby and Caleb determine to help clear Jordan's name.
Will at the Battle of Gettysburg (Boys of Wartime (Hardcover), #2)
by Laurie Calkhoven
This sequel to Little Women follows the lives and early marriages of the four March girls.