American+Civil+War

= United States - Civil War =

|| **Historical note**: The Civil War took place in the years of 1861-1865. It was a war between the northern states and the southern states of the United States. || Comments: //(other readers may add comments here.)// ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=059043814X/LC.JPG width="129" height="172"]] || **__ The Journal of James Edmond Pease __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author: Jim Murphy ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book is based on the journal of James Edmond Pease. When he starts out in the war he is just 16 years old. The sergeant that is in charge of him and his group that he was in he was always yelling at him because he would always doze off. Later on he becomes a sergeant and becomes better at war. When he finishes the war he loves telling the story of the Civil War. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Barbara M.
 * Class**: W1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: What I like about the book is that it gives me information on what went on during the Civil War. ||

|| **Historical note**: Slavery in the U.S. was a legal institution until 1865. African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s. Most slaves were blacks and held by whites, but there were also a small number of white slaves. ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0152059474%20(hardcove/LC.JPG width="128" height="200"]] || **__ Come Juneteenth __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author: Ann Rinaldi ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: Luli is going through a very rough time with her family. Ever since the Yankees took over their house there has been nothing but pain and suffering for her family. She feels so lost. Luli even ends up shooting one of the soldiers. The most important secret, that was kept between the family, is broken and threatens to tear the family apart. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Sarah D.


 * Class**: H1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: It always keeps you on your toes. You never know what might happen next. ||
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|| **__ My Last Skirt __** ||
 * ^  || ** Lynda Durrant ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: There was a girl named Jeannie Hodgers who pretended to be a boy so she could make money. When her dad died, she and her brother Tom had to find work and move somewhere else. Then her brother told her employer she was a girl, and she ran away and joined the Grand Army of the Republic under the name of Albert. When the war was over they found out she was a girl and she had to go to a nursing home kind of house. ||
 * **Rating**:[[image:five_stars.jpg]] || **Historical note**: The war took place in the 1860’s. Many people starved to death and died during this war. ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Claudia P.


 * Class**:H2 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I really liked this book because it’s showing what a girl is willing to do to help her family and it proves that girls can do the same things boys can do. ||
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|| **Summary**: Scarlett O’Hara, a strong willed, selfish teenager, has been the “Belle” of many balls, and brought up knowing only her peaceful, beautiful southern life, where women were expected to grow up, “catch a husband”, and run their houses properly for the rest of their lives. But when the Civil War takes most the men from her town, Scarlett finds herself in a turn of events that leaves her to fend for herself at times. Some of the things she must do to fight her way to the top again are considered scandalous at the time, things such as running a business by herself or marrying only years after her husband dies. But Scarlett, half Irish, has her own way of doing things, and after realizing she doesn’t really care what people talk or think about her, leads the life she wants to. With pieces of happiness thrown into a thoroughly depressing romance, we follow Scarlett O’Hara in her confusing, devastating, absorbing life in the 1800’s. __Gone With the Wind__ is a book that has outsold every other one except the bible, and for good reason, too. ||    **Rating**: || **Historical note**: This book takes place in a modest, happy time, turning from the peaceful pre-War south to the messy, depressing, dark ages of the years between the start and finish of it. With more and more dead every day, sickness and gunfire take many of the men in Scarlett’s life, and life after the war isn’t very much better for her and other nonfiction women who survived those days. The Civil War was a time when the Southern United States and the Northern were battling each other. It took place in the 1800’s. They fought over many things, but mainly over the freedom for the African Americans of the time. || **Reviewed by**: Gabrielle Gehron **Class**: H1 ||^  || || **Review**: This book is a great read because of the strong will of the main characters and the attitude that Scarlett has; that no matted what, she will get ahead again, the readiness to return to her old life, and the willingness to do just about anything to get there. Almost all of the characters have found strength. || **Comments**: //(other readers may add comments here.)// ||
 * __ Gone With The Wind  __** ||
 * Margaret Mitchell ** ||
 * Margaret Mitchell ** ||