All fiction is filed alphabetically by the authors’ last names.

Ghost Soldier by Elaine Marie Alphin.
Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.  216 pages

The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan by Jennifer Armstrong.
Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, struggles to come to grips with the impact of the Civil War on her family.  119 pages  (J PB Banks)

Mary Mehan Awake by Jennifer Armstrong
While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.  119 pages

Abraham’s Battle: A Novel of Gettysburg by Sara H. Banks
In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.  88 pages

No Man’s Land:  A Young Soldier’s Story by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Because he had been unable to fight off the gator which injured his father, fourteen-year-old Thrasher joins the Confederate Army hoping to prove his manhood.  168 pages

Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty.
During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.  186 pages

Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey by Patricia Beatty.
A thirteen-year-old powdermonkey in the Confederate navy joins the crew of the ironclad Merrimack in a mission to break the Union blockade of Norfolk harbor.  227 pages

Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty.
In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.  214 pages

Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty.
Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in Indiana along with other Georgia mill workers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.  193 pages

Who Comes With Cannons by Patricia Beatty.
In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.  186 pages

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.
During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging.  40 pages

Second Sight by Gary L. Blackwood.
In Washington, D.C., during the last days of the Civil War, a teenage boy who performs in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot.  279 pages

Evvy’s Civil War by Miriam Brenaman.
In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.  209 pages

March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac.
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.  298 pages.

Double Eagle by Sneed B. Collard
In 1973, Michael and Kyle's discovery of a rare Confederate coin near an old Civil War fort turns into a race against time as the boys try to find more coins before a hurricane hits Alabama's Gulf coast.  245 pages

With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier.
While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.  235 pages

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.  (various)

Private Captain:  A Story of Gettysburg by Marty Crisp.
In 1863 Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Ben and his dog Captain set off in search of Ben's brother, who is missing from the Union Army.  293 pages

Imperfections by Lynda Durrant.
In 1862 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth strives to fit in with the Shaker sisters of this "Heaven on Earth," but yearns to be reunited with her mother and siblings from whom she was separated when they sought refuge from her abusive father. Includes facts about Shakers and Morgan's Raiders.  172 pages.

My Last Skirt:  The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier by Lynda Durrant.
Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after imigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War. 199 pages

Annie, Between the States by Laura Elliott.
Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her family's Virginia home. Annie's loyalty is clear until a wounded Union officer is dragged onto her porch. 488 pages

The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg by Kathleen Ernst.
In Civil War Maryland, the friendship of two girls is tested by their conflicting loyalties. 225 pages

Ghosts of Vicksburg by Kathleen Ernst.
When Jamie Carswell joins the 14th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment fighting in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he finds his cousin Althea living there, trying to make peace with her past and keep her family safe during the Union's siege.  215 pages

Hearts of Stone by Kathleen Ernst.
Orphaned when her father dies fighting for the Union and her mother expires from exhaustion, and also estranged from their Confederate neighbors, fifteen-year-old Hannah struggles to find a way for her family to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee.  248 pages.

The Night Riders of Harpers Ferry by Kathleen Ernst.
During the Civil War, a seventeen-year-old Union soldier must adjust to army life, with the additional complications peculiar to the region where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers come together at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.  139 pages

Retreat from Gettysburg by Kathleen Ernst
In 1863, during the tense week after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Maryland boy faces difficult choices as he is forced to care for a wounded Confederate officer while trying to decide if he himself should leave his family to fight for the Union. 141 pages

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman.
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.  102 pages

Becca’s Story by James D.  Forman.
A Civil War romance concerning a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who are rivals for her hand.  180 pages

Dust from Old Bones by Sandra Forrester
The diary entries of thirteen-year-old Simone Agneau, a child of mixed African and European ancestry, reflect the peculiar caste system in Louisiana before the Civil War.  164 pages

Brady by Jean Fritz
A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.  223 pages

Abner & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure by Dan Gutman.
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.  166 pages

Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn.
With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War.  212 pages

Promises to the Dead by Mary Downing Hahn.
Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.  202 pages

Which Way Freedom? by Joyce Hansen.
Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.  120 pages

Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run by Michael Hemphill.
While participating in a reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, twelve-year-old Stonewall Hinkleman is transported back to the actual Civil War battle by means of a magic bugle.  168 pages

With Lee in Virginia:  A Story of the American Civil War by G. A.  Henty.
Presents, chronologically, some of the great battles during the Northern invasion of Virginia during the Civil War.  337 pages

Bright Freedom’s Song: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Gloria Houston
In the years before the Civil War, Bright discovers that her parents are providing a safe house for the Underground Railroad and helps to save a runaway slave named Marcus.  145 pages

Guerilla Season by Pat Hughes.
Two fifteen-year-old boys in Missouri in 1863 find friendship and family loyalty tested by Quantrell's raiders, a Rebel guerrilla band who roamed under the black flag of "no quarter to be given by Union troops." 328 pages

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt.
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.  212 pages

Caught in the Rebel Camp by Dave Jackson.
Despite his clubfoot, Danny Simms, Frederick Douglass’ fourteen-year-old stable boy, joins the newly formed all-black Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry regiment, eager to do his part to help end slavery.  151 pages

My Brothers’ Keeper:  A Civil War Story by Nancy Johnson.
As a young orphaned drummer boy in the Civil War, Josh Parrish joins the 20th Maine in time to be caught up in the battle for Little Round Top.  137 pages

Shenandoah Autumn: Courage Under Fire by Mauriel Joslyn.
Living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the time of the Civil War, fifteen-year-old Mattie proves to be a woman of courage even as conflicts rage around her.  152 pages

Anna Sunday by Sally M. Keehn.
In 1863 twelve-year-old Anna, disguised as a boy and accompanied by her younger brother Jed, leaves their Pennsylvania home and makes the difficult journey to join their wounded father in Winchester, Virginia, where they find themselves in danger from Confederate troops.  266 pages

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith.
The story of Jeff Bussey, a farm boy living in 1861, who joins the Union army and goes on an important mission to discover how Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee Rebels are receiving repeating rifles from northern manufacturers.  332 pages

Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa M. Klein.
When the Civil War breaks out, two cousins, Lizzie and Rosanna, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict until the war reunites them in the town of Gettysburg.  393 pages

Stella Stands Alone by A. LaFaye.
Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.  245 pages

Dear Ellen Bee:  A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies by Mary E. Lyons.
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery.  161 pages

Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons.
A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.  197 pages

The War Within:  A Novel of the Civil War by Carol Matas.
In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.  151 pages

How I Found the Strong:  A Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan.
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.  136 pages

Assassin by Anna Myers.
In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 212 pages

Riot by Walter Dean Myers
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.  164 pages

A Dangerous Promise by Joan Lowry Nixon.
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.  148 pages

Keeping Secrets by Joan Lowry Nixon.
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.  163 pages

Soldier’s Heart:  A Novel of the Civil War by Gary Paulsen.
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.  106 pages

The River between Us by Richard Peck.
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.  164 pages

The Slopes of War by Norah A. Perez.
Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Curtis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia. 202 pages  (J PB Perez)

Silent Thunder:  A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney.
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.  218 pages

Across the Lines by Carolyn Reeder.
Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.  220 pages

Before the Creeks Ran Red by Carolyn Reeder.
Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War.  370 pages

Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi.
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.  265 pages

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi.
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research. 294 pages

Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi.
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.  246 pages

Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi.
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.  310 pages

In My Father’s House by Ann Rinaldi.
For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.  317 pages

Juliet’s Moon by Ann Rinaldi.
In Missouri in 1863, twelve-year-old Juliet Bradshaw learns to rely on herself and her brother, a captain with Quantrill's Raiders, as she sees her family home burned, is imprisoned by Yankees, and then kidnapped by a blood-crazed Confederate soldier.  249 pages

Leigh Ann’s Civil War: A Novel by Ann Rinaldi
Spunky Leigh Ann Conners, eleven years old when the Civil War erupts, faces the biggest challenge of her life when she is arrested and charged as a traitor after placing a French flag on top of the family mill in Roswell, Georgia, in hopes of convincing the invading Yankees to spare the business.  308 pages

My Vicksburg by Ann Rinaldi
During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.  154 pages

Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi.
It is 1864, President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure,' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life.  170 pages

Sarah’s Ground by Ann Rinaldi.
In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York State, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert.  176 pages

Letters from Vinnie by Maureen Stack Sappey.
A fictionalized account of the Washington, D.C., Civil War years experienced by Vinnie Ream the sculptress, best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol building.  248 pages

Braving the Fire by John B. Severance.
Jem joins the Union Army but is not sure of his motives or what he hopes to accomplish, particularly since the Civil War has divided his family and caused much violence and confusion in his life.  148 pages

Trembling Earth by Kim Siegelson.
In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect a reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times. 152 pages

Yankees on the Doorstep: The Story of Sarah Morgan by Debra Smith.
Sarah Morgan is a spirited twenty-year-old, loyal to the Confederacy, when Union forces arrive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1862, forcing her and her family on a perilous journey to New Orleans.  Includes excerpts from the actual diary on which the story is based.  176 pages  (J PB Smith)

The Deep Cut by Susan Rosson Spain.
Considered "slow" by his father, Lonzo tries his best to help his family in Culpeper, Virginia, during the Civil War and, in the process, comes to some decisions about how to live his life.  217 pages

The Perilous Road by William O. Steele.
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.  156 pages

Captured By a Spy by Lucille Travis.
Two boys, one black and the other white, are kidnapped from their Tarrytown, N.Y., home by Confederate spies and taken north along the Hudson River and into Canada.  141 pages  (J PB Travis)

The Redheaded Orphan by Lucille Travis.
In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed during an Indian raid.  152 pages  (J PB Travis)

Union Army Black by Lucille Travis.
Zack, a twelve-year-old black boy who has watched the Civil War continue for four bloody years, enlists as a drummer boy in the Union Army and finds adventure in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  160 pages  (J PB Travis)

Red Moon at Sharpsburg: A Novel by Rosemary Wells.
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.  236 pages

The Confederate Fiddle by Jeanne Williams.
In 1863, while helping to get a wagon trail full of cotton from Missouri to an open port in Texas, Vin envies his older brother in the Confederate Army but finds that his unglamorous task involves thrills and courage.  188 pages

The Flags of War by John Wilson.
Walt and Nate are cousins who have never met. One lives in South Carolina and the other in Canada. Their lives are changed forever by a fugitive slave named Sunday. 166 pages

The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler.
In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  133 pages

Mustang Flats by G. Clifton Wisler.
When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.  116 pages

Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.  160 pages

Run the Blockade by G. Clifton Wisler
During the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Henry finds adventure working as a ship's boy and lookout aboard the "Banshee," a new British ship attempting to get past the Yankee blockade of the Southern coast.  122 pages

The Tom Sawyer Fires by Laurence Yep
The fifteen-year-old narrator relates how, with his help, cub reporter, Mark Twain, and fire fighter, Tom Sawyer, uncover the plot of a deranged Southern arsonist in San Francisco during the Civil War.  136 pages

7/2010  BA