Re: CIVIL WAR BOOKS

[Dunn Elementary School <rdunnes@iglou.com>]

BIGGER by Patricia Clavert, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1994
>From the jacket..."Twelve-year'old Tyler hasn't seen his father, the
dashing Black Jack Bohannon, since he left their home on Sweet Creek at
the beginning of the war to join up with General Jo Shelby of the Iron
Cavalry Brigade of Missouri.  When a passing soldier tells Tyler that
General Shelby has refused to surrender to the Yankees and is headed for
Mexico with his men to regroup, Tyler resolves to find his father and
bring him home." Tyler meets people along his way who make him think
about the war and the effects of it.  This is excellent.
Suzanne Gieszl, Librarian
Ruth Dunn Elementary School
2010 Rudy Lane
Louisville, Kentucky  40207
rdunnes@iglou.com