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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Even well over a century later, there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings about the U.S. Civil War. In this detailed, entertaining book, students will learn about how and why the war started (including the key role of slavery), the leaders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Haunted by history. Bound by mystery.
Lori Chase doesn't know what to think about ghosts. She may have seen a few in the past, but those were just childish imaginings . . . right? Only now that she is living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, spirits seem to be on everyone's mind. The town is obsessed with its bloody Civil War history, and the old inn that Lori's parent run is supposedly haunted by the souls of dead soldiers. Then Lori meets one such soldier...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A heartfelt debut novel about a boy’s attempt to find himself in the history he loves—perfect for fans of Dear Sweet Pea and From the Desk of Zoe Washington.
Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He’s been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there’s something missing from history: someone like the two of them.
Amos is sure there...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
NOW IN PAPERBACK!
The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history.
In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people boarded the Pearl under cover of night in Washington, D.C., hoping to sail north to freedom. Within a day, the schooner was captured, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Pennsylvania in a daring offensive to win the Civil War in a single campaign. They met the Union Army at a quiet crossroads town called Gettysburg, and engaged in the greatest battle ever fought on American soil. Three days of combat ended on July 3 with Pickett's Charge, a heroic assault by nine of Lee's brigades against the Union defenses on Cemetery Ridge....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. James L. Swanson, noted Civil War historian and author...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Recounts the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and follows the intensive search for him from the streets of Washington, D.C., through the swamps of Maryland, into the forests of Virginia.
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