Keeping Room, The
Author(s): Myers,
Anna Grade Level(s): 6-8
Publisher: Walker
and Company Publication Date: 1997
Illustrator: Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s):
Culture(s): Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s):
Series:
Annotation: Set
in colonial South Carolina during the Revolutionary War, this book explores the impact of
war and civil disobedience on the quiet town of Camden and
the founding family of Colonel Joseph Kershaw. This story tells how the family - patriots for the American cause - survive
while under British occupation and quartering. The selection connects to the curriculum for fifth- and eighth-grade history/social
science.
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the
First Minnesota Volunteers
Author(s): Paulsen,
Gary Grade Level(s): 6-8, 9-12
Publisher: Delacorte
Press Publication Date: 1998
Illustrator: Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s):
Culture(s): Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s):
Series:
Annotation: This
fictional memoir presents the horrors of the Civil War experienced by a fifteen-year-old soldier. Through Charley Goddard's
reflections, readers see the futility of war and the lasting impact it has on those who fight and those who wait at home.
This selection may be used in conjunction with THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE.
Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story
Author(s): Pinkney,
Andrea Davis Grade Level(s): 3-5, 6-8
Publisher: Hyperion
Press Publication Date: 1999
Illustrator: Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s):
Culture(s): Black/African
American Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s):
Series:
Annotation: In 1862
eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother, Rosco, describe life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they live as slaves. Then their lives are affected by the Civil
War and the changes brought about by the conflict. The book could be used with the fifth- and eighth-grade history/social
science curricula. It is available in paperback or prebind.
Pink and Say
Author(s): Polacco,
Patricia Grade Level(s): 3-5, 6-8
Publisher: Putnam
Publishing Publication Date: 1994
Illustrator: Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s): Picture Book, Read Aloud
Culture(s): Black/African
American Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s):
Series:
Annotation: Racism
and prejudice are set aside when Say Curtis remembers his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black solider, during the Civil War.
While recovering from battle wounds, Pink teaches Say to read. The two are captured by Southern troops, and only one survives
to pass down this story of friendship and caring.
Across the Lines
Author(s): Reeder,
Carolyn Grade Level(s): 6-8
Publisher: Atheneum Publication Date: 1997
Illustrator: Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s):
Culture(s): Black/African
American Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s):
Series:
Annotation: A year
in the lives of two boys, one slave and one free, is recounted in this historical fiction selection about the Civil War. The
action of the story takes place in Virginia, but both northern
and southern viewpoints are presented. Readers see the impact most directly on Edward, a wealthy Southern boy, and his family
and relatives. Connections to eighth-grade history/social science are present.
Shades of Gray
Author(s): Reeder,
Carolyn Grade Level(s): 6-8
Publisher: Macmillan
and Company Publication Date: 1989
Illustrator: Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s):
Culture(s): Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s): Scott
O'Dell Award
Series:
Annotation: Will
Page is a twelve-year-old orphan and victim of a war that has divided the nation in half and taken members of his family.
As he begins a new life in Virginia with his aunt's family,
he must deal with his anger toward the Yankees and toward his Uncle Jed, who chose not to fight. The selection connects to
the history/social science curriculum for the eighth grade.
The House of Dies Drear
Author(s): Hamilton, Virginia; Keith, Eros Grade Level(s): 6-8
Publisher: Simon
& Schuster Children’s Date: 1984
Illustrator:
Translator:
Genre(s): Historical
Fiction Classification(s):
Culture(s): Language(s): English
Curriculum: History/Social
Science
Award(s): Scott
O'Dell Award
Series: Dies Drear Chronicle Series
The house held secrets,
Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-oldlegend--two fugitive
slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made
the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its
rooms...
