American Civil War in YA & Middle Grade Fiction

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The River Between Us
The River Between Us 3.78 avg rating — 5,250 ratings
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Across Five Aprils
Across Five Aprils 3.60 avg rating — 15,641 ratings
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Rifles for Watie
Rifles for Watie 3.94 avg rating — 10,918 ratings
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The Girls of Gettysburg
The Girls of Gettysburg 3.93 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Girl in Blue
Girl in Blue 3.87 avg rating — 3,750 ratings
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Annie, Between the States
Annie, Between the States 4.11 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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Amelia's War
Amelia's War 3.57 avg rating — 840 ratings
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Two Girls of Gettysburg
Two Girls of Gettysburg 3.89 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
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My Vicksburg
My Vicksburg 3.54 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage 3.30 avg rating — 108,686 ratings
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Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Red Moon at Sharpsburg 3.65 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Evvy's Civil War
Evvy's Civil War 3.71 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Tamarack Tree
The Tamarack Tree 4.04 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Last Silk Dress
The Last Silk Dress 3.94 avg rating — 2,702 ratings
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The Perilous Road
The Perilous Road 3.69 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Red Cap
Red Cap 3.83 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Stone Field
Stone Field 3.20 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg 3.69 avg rating — 7,448 ratings
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Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 35,468 ratings
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The Not So Boring Letters of Private Nobody
The Not So Boring Letters of Private Nobody 4.15 avg rating — 556 ratings
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An Acquaintance with Darkness
An Acquaintance with Darkness 3.88 avg rating — 2,128 ratings
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Sarah's Ground
Sarah's Ground 3.56 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Picture the Dead
Picture the Dead 3.50 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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Come Juneteenth
Come Juneteenth 3.54 avg rating — 793 ratings
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The Storm Before Atlanta
The Storm Before Atlanta 3.56 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Hearts of Stone
Hearts of Stone 3.84 avg rating — 100 ratings
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In My Father's House
In My Father's House 3.88 avg rating — 2,906 ratings
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Shades of Gray
Shades of Gray 3.86 avg rating — 2,894 ratings
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A Soldier's Secret
A Soldier's Secret 3.85 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Numbering All the Bones
Numbering All the Bones 3.76 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
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Leigh Ann's Civil War
Leigh Ann's Civil War 3.80 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Listen for Rachel
Listen for Rachel 4.10 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Behind Rebel Lines
Behind Rebel Lines 3.76 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 3.60 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
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The Last Full Measure
The Last Full Measure 3.70 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal
Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Juliet's Moon
Juliet's Moon 3.75 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War
The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War 3.58 avg rating — 281 ratings
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My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln's Story
My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln's Story 3.54 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Retreat from Gettysburg (White Mane Kids, #10)
Retreat from Gettysburg (White Mane Kids, #10) 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Mr. Lincoln's Drummer
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer 3.81 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Keeping Secrets (Orphan Train Adventures, #6)
Keeping Secrets (Orphan Train Adventures, #6) 3.89 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Like a River: A Civil War Novel
Like a River: A Civil War Novel 3.98 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Mirk and Midnight Hour
The Mirk and Midnight Hour 3.51 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
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Jennie Wade: A Girl from Gettysburg (Founding of America Series)
Jennie Wade: A Girl from Gettysburg (Founding of America Series) 4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 616,823 ratings
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If the South Had Won the Civil War
If the South Had Won the Civil War 3.44 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Story of Clara Barton
The Story of Clara Barton 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Rebel Hart
Rebel Hart 4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Avery's Battlefield (Avery's Battlefield, #1)
Avery's Battlefield (Avery's Battlefield, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg (White Mane Kids, #5)
The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg (White Mane Kids, #5) 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Antietam - Waking the Fury (Founding of America Series)
Antietam - Waking the Fury (Founding of America Series) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Beautiful Creatures: The Manga
Beautiful Creatures: The Manga 4.04 avg rating — 9,601 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 90,454 ratings
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Civil War on Sunday (Magic Tree House, #21)
Civil War on Sunday (Magic Tree House, #21) 3.99 avg rating — 10,216 ratings
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Vicksburg Veteran
Vicksburg Veteran 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Avery's Crossroad (Avery's Battlefield, #2)
Avery's Crossroad (Avery's Battlefield, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Mists of the Blue Ridge
Mists of the Blue Ridge 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Pink and Say
Pink and Say 4.49 avg rating — 11,657 ratings
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The Wrong Man: A Novel of the American Civil War
The Wrong Man: A Novel of the American Civil War 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy
John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy 4.10 avg rating — 182 ratings
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To Be a Slave
To Be a Slave 3.93 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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Lucinda, A Little Girl of 1860
Lucinda, A Little Girl of 1860 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Andersonville: The Long Journey Home
Andersonville: The Long Journey Home 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title) 4.15 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
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Across the Lines
Across the Lines 3.46 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Black Angels
Black Angels 3.93 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Window of Time: A Story
Window of Time: A Story 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Letter
The Letter 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Spy for the Confederacy: Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Spy for the Confederacy: Rose O'Neal Greenhow 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Hear the Wind Blow: A Novel of the Civil War
Hear the Wind Blow: A Novel of the Civil War 4.09 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Yankee spy, Elizabeth Van Lew
Yankee spy, Elizabeth Van Lew 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War
With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War 3.68 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Belle Boyd, Secret Agent.
Belle Boyd, Secret Agent. 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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March Toward the Thunder
March Toward the Thunder 3.77 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Tilly-Tod
Tilly-Tod liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bull Run
Bull Run 3.43 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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The Star-Spangled Secret
The Star-Spangled Secret 3.59 avg rating — 61 ratings
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How I Found the Strong
How I Found the Strong 3.89 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Muddy Banks (Chaparral Books)
Muddy Banks (Chaparral Books) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Assassin
Assassin 3.74 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Wind on the River: A Story of the Civil War
Wind on the River: A Story of the Civil War 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan: A Novel of the Civil War
The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan: A Novel of the Civil War 3.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredericksburg, Bowling Green, Virginia, 1862
The Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredericksburg, Bowling Green, Virginia, 1862
by: Sid Hite
3.61 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Corrie and the Yankee
Corrie and the Yankee liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Voice from the Border
A Voice from the Border 3.56 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Tancy
Tancy 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Silent Thunder
Silent Thunder 3.78 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers 3.66 avg rating — 5,345 ratings
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Across the Lines
Across the Lines 3.46 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac
Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac
by: Avi
3.79 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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Riot
Riot 3.27 avg rating — 899 ratings
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Trembling Earth
Trembling Earth 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Of Time and of Seasons (Bridget, #1)
Of Time and of Seasons (Bridget, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Becca's Story
Becca's Story 3.26 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Hanna's Courage: A Story of Love and Betrayal at the Battle of Gettysburg
Hanna's Courage: A Story of Love and Betrayal at the Battle of Gettysburg it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Ballad of the Civil War
A Ballad of the Civil War 3.49 avg rating — 112 ratings
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All Their Names Were Courage
All Their Names Were Courage 3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies
Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies 3.75 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Hot Iron: The Adventures of a Civil War Powder Boy (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels)
Hot Iron: The Adventures of a Civil War Powder Boy (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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