Hit: Civil War-Differing Perspectives

["Julia P. Sischo" <jsischo@CMC.NET>]

SLAVES:
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson, Deborah
Escape from SLaver - Rappaport, Doreen
Follow the Drinking Gourd
        picture book of the coded song sung by slaves giving directions for
the Underground Railroad
Sound the jubilee - Forrester, Sandra
        slave family escapes to Roanoke Island
Which way Freedom - Hansen, Joyce
        Escaped slave joins a Union regiment
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester,
Rebels Against Slavery by Patricia C McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
Long Journey home - Julius Lester  6 short stories
MILITARY LEADERS:
Stonwall - Fritz, Jean
LINCOLN:
Lincoln: A Photobiography - Freedman, Russell
FEMALE:
Turn Homeward, Hannalee - Beatty, Patricia
Behind Rebel Lines - Riet, Seymour
Amelia's War - by Anne Rinaldi
        Told from the point of view of a young girl in a border state and
how,  althougheveryone around her chooses one side or the other,  she tries
to remain neutral.  She finds that she has to take a stand, and the
way she makes hercontribution is most unusual, but historic.
Rinaldi has also written anotherCivil War book, but I can't
remember    the title.
Nettie's Trip South -
        excellent...you have to get this...a young Northern
        girl travels to the South sometime before the war and witnesses  a
slave auction.  She writes about the experience in a letter to
a                friend.  Based upon the author's (great?) grandmother's
diary.
A Light in the storm - Hesse, Karen
        Delaware girl keeps a diary about the war
Who Comes with Cannons - Beatty, Patricia
        quaker in Indiana helping run an Underground Railroad station in
North Carolina
When will this cruel war be over - Denenberg, Baryy
        Southern girl describes her family's hardships
Becca's story - Forman, James
        Northern girl has two rival suitors who become soldiers
The last silk dress - Rinaldi, Ann
        Susan helps the confederate army
In my father's House - Rinaldi, Ann
Mine Eyes have seen - Rinaldi Ann
        Girls view of John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry
The tamarack Tree by Patricia Clapp
        gives the perspective of a British young woman visiting during the
seige of Vicksburg.
Phoebe Yates Pember: A Southern Woman's Story by Phoebe Yates Pember
        A Jewish civil war nurse in Richmond, VA is a good one for good
readers!
SOUTHERN:
Shades of Gray - Reeder, Carolyn
Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee - Beatty, Patricia
Across the lines - Reeder, Carolyn
Keeping Secrets - Noxon, Joan Lowry
        Missouri girl helps a runaway from Kansas
Christmas in the Quarters, Christmas in the Big House - McKissacks
        tells about the Christmas celebrated by slaves and slave owners on
a    Southern plantation just before the war.
Stonewall's gold - Mrazek, Robert
The Guns of the South by Turtledove.
NORTHERN:
Brady - Fritz, Jean
Soldier's Heart - Paulsen, Gary
Pink and Say - Polacco, Patricia
Journal of Edmond Pease - Murphy, Jim
        Union soldiers journal
Brady - Fritz, Jean
        Northern bot campaigns against slavery
Charley Skedaddle - Beatty, Patricia
        New York boy joins as a drummer
Red badge of COurage - Crane, Stephen
        Union soldier has conflicting emotions
Drummer Boy -
        picture book for older students...a  young drummer boy enlists but
after witnessing war wants to tell Lincoln not to send anyone
to                war.
DIVIDED LOYALTIES:
Across Five Aprils - Hunt, Irene
MULTIPLE :
Bull Run - Fleischman, Paul
PARENT
The Blue and The Gray - Eve Bunting
        Told from a modern perspective as a parent tells two young boys
about the CivilWar battle that occured in the field behind
their new            home.  A picture book for older students


Others-don't know what perspective
The Boy's War - Jim Murphy
        a primary source of letters written by young boy soldiers.
With Every Drop of Blood - Collier, James Lincoln
Matter of Honor by Edson
Andersonville by Kantor
The Last Silk Dress by Rinaldi



Thanks to the following: Dawn Sardes,Rosanne Zajko, Cindy Mitchell,Maureen
S. Irwin, Sharon Shockey.Susan Grigsby, Mary Jane Krajnak

Julia P Sischo  Teacher/Library Media Specialist
Highland Terrace Elementary (K-6)  Shoreline, WA
jsischo@cmc.net

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