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1) Mujercitas
Author
Publisher
Editorial Ink
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband in the Civil War, inspired by a real female soldier's letters home Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father's side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends -- such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee -- to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed...
9) Grant
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. He is often caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't capture the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Historian T.J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, demonstrating how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He refutes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person -- capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The...
11) Last of the name
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York--the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. Meagher's rebirth in America included his leading...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 21
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
Annie y Jack viajan en la casa del árbol a la época de la Guerra Civil norteamericana. Allí conocen a una destacada enfermera llama Clara Barton, a quien ayudan con todo empeño a socorrer a los soldados heridos en combate. Annie y Jack viven el viaje más dificil hasta el presente, el que marcará sus vidas para siempre.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 21
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever serve in the US Army.
"Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Cathy Williams was born and lived a slave until the Union army came and destroyed the only world she had ever known. Separated from her family, she makes the impossible decision: to fight with...