Nation at War: Civil War

The fictional diaries that put DEAR AMERICA on bestseller lists are now available in paperback in the boxed DEAR AMERICA Library Collections. Each of the four books in this box set offers a different perspective of the American Civil War -- that of a girl from the Confederate south, a Union soldier, a slave girl, and a girl living in the divided state of Delaware. Includes: A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 - by Karen Hesse The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 - by Jim Murphy When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 - by Barry Denenberg A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 - by Patricia C. McKissack