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Q4

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Book Review Reading List

Quarter 4

Biography

  • Invincible Louisa*

by Cornelia Miegs

  • Lincoln: A Photobiography*

by Russell Friedman

  • Lincoln: In His Own Words

by Milton Meltzer

  • Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Activist

by Catherine

Bernard

  • Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War

by Stephen B. Oates

Pirates/Sea Exploration

  • Beyond the WesternSea, Book One: The Escape from Home*

by Avi

  • Beyond the WesternSea, Book Two: Lord Kirkle’s Money*

by Avi

  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle*

by Avi

Civil War

  • Abner & Me*

by Dan Gutman

  • Across Five Aprils*

by Irene Hunt

  • An Acquaintance with Darkness

by Ann Rinaldi

  • Andy and Mark and the Time Machine: Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg

by Wilfred Reed

  • Becca’s Story

by James Forman

  • Bigger

by Patricia Calvert

  • The Borning Room*

by Paul Fleischman

  • The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg

by Kathleen Ernst

  • Bull Run*

by Paul Fleischman

  • Charley Skedaddle

by Patricia Beatty

  • The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys

by Ann Rinaldi

  • The Dreams of Mairhe Meehan

by Jennifer Armstrong

  • Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey

by Patricia Beatty

  • Echoes of Andersonville

by Robert Diel Dean

  • Emily of the WildRoseInn*

by Jennifer Armstrong

  • Girl in Blue

by Ann Rinaldi

  • Here and Then

by Linda Lael Miller

  • In My Father’s House*

by Ann Rinaldi

  • Jayhawker

by Patricia Beatty

  • The Journal of Rufus Rowe, Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg

by Sid Hite

  • The Land

by Mildred D. Taylor

  • The Last Silk Dress*

by Ann Rinaldi

  • Lincoln

by David Herbert Donald

  • Listen for Rachel*

by Lou Kassem

  • Little Women*

by Louisa May Alcott

  • Louisiana Hurricane

by Kathleen Duey

  • Maggie of Long Hollow

by James W. Prothero

  • Mary Meehan Awake

by Jennifer Armstrong

  • My Dear Phebe

by Janet

Elaine Smith

  • My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier

by Lynda Durrant

  • No Man’s Land

by Susan Bartoletti

  • The Red Badge of Courage*

by Stephen Crane

  • Red Cap

by G. Clifton Wisler

  • Rifles for Waitie*

by Harold Keith

  • Shades of Gray

by Carolyn Reeder

  • Soldier’s Heart*

by Gary Paulsen

  • Tamarack Tree: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

by Patricia Clapp

  • Turn Homeward, Hannalee

by Patricia Beatty

  • When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Viriginia, 1864*

by Barry Denenberg

  • With Every Drop of Blood

by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Frontier/Pioneering

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*

by Mark Twain

* Denotes a book in Ms. Green’s Classroom Library