Random House New Releases - Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose by Astrid Sheckels

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Random House Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Horses; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | $6.99 | 978-0-375-87006-4 (0-375-87006-7)

Alabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for, then coming back to her comfortable stall and her friend Levi, the slave boy who is her groom. But as the Civil War approaches, Rosie begins to question plantation life. Is slavery fair? Could Levi be free? Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horse's point of view and includes an appendix full of photos and facts about Tennessee Walking Horses and the Civil War.

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose by Astrid Sheckels

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

eBook, 160 pages | Random House Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Horses; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | $6.99 | 978-0-375-98731-1 (0-375-98731-2)

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose by Astrid Sheckels

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

Hardcover Library Binding, 160 pages | Random House Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Horses; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | $12.99 | 978-0-375-97006-1 (0-375-97006-1)

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming

Hardcover, 208 pages | Schwartz & Wade | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways | $16.99 | 978-0-375-86781-1 (0-375-86781-3)

"Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.

The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others ironically, but all due to supernatural causes. Readers will meet walking corpses and witness demonic posession, all against the backdrop of Chicago's rich history—the Great Depression, the World's Fair, Al Capone and his fellow gangsters.

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming

eBook, 208 pages | Schwartz & Wade | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways | $10.99 | 978-0-375-89863-1 (0-375-89863-8)

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming

Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages | Schwartz & Wade | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways | $19.99 | 978-0-375-96781-8 (0-375-96781-8)

On the Day I Died by Various

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming
Read by Various

Unabridged Compact Disc | Listening Library (Audio) | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways | $30.00 | 978-0-307-99101-0 (0-307-99101-6)

On the Day I Died by Various

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming
Read by Various

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Listening Library (Audio) | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways | $15.00 | 978-0-307-99109-6 (0-307-99109-1)

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

2011-12-13T00:30:00-05:00

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship | $6.99 | 978-0-375-85867-3 (0-375-85867-9)

At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head directly toward the fighting in the hopes that she'll become "contraband," that is, property of the Union troops. Both Jeremy and Dulcie find a place with the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment and even start to forge a friendship. But all that is threatened when they cross paths with the mysterious Charlie, a young Confederate soldier, who may look like the enemy but feels more like a friend.

Young readers who like their fiction filled with exciting historical details, rich characters, and action-packed adventures will be drawn to The Storm Before Atlanta.

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

2011-04-26T00:30:00-05:00

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

Trade Paperback, 176 pages | EgmontUSA | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) | $8.99 | 978-1-60684-209-6 (1-60684-209-9)

The Civil War is raging and in a desperate effort to find more recruits, the Union begins a draft - a draft with a difference. The wealthy can pay $300 to be released from their obligation, but the poor must go and fight and die. In New York City, the recently arrived Irish are the hardest hit by the draft and during the long hot days of July the city explodes in a rash of arson, marches, attacks, and lynchings, with the immigrant Irish taking out their anger on the black inhabitants of the city.
Fourteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, has never had to choose between the two sides of the family - she has never had reason to consider her own identity. When she learns that a friend of hers is in danger, she decides to go to her aid, but by venturing out on the streets, she puts her own life at risk.

Myers's use of the screenplay format allows his readers a birds-eye view of the four hot days in July when New York City burned, using multiple points of view from both sides of the conflict.

The Red Badge of Courage by Scott Brick

2011-01-11T00:30:00-05:00

The Red Badge of Courage
Written by Stephen Crane
Read by Scott Brick

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Listening Library (Audio) | Juvenile Fiction - Classics; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) | $15.00 | 978-0-307-91611-2 (0-307-91611-1)

The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil
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The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

2010-12-28T00:30:00-05:00

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

Hardcover, 320 pages | Random House Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship | $16.99 | 978-0-375-85866-6 (0-375-85866-0)

At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head directly toward the fighting in the hopes that she'll become "contraband," that is, property of the Union troops. Both Jeremy and Dulcie find a place with the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment and even start to forge a friendship. But all that is threatened when they keep crossing paths with the mysterious Charlie, a young Confederate soldier, who may look like the enemy but feels more like a friend.

Young readers who like their fiction filled with exciting historical details, rich characters, and action-packed adventures will be drawn to The Storm Before Atlanta.

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

2010-12-28T00:30:00-05:00

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

eBook, 320 pages | Random House Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship | $6.99 | 978-0-375-89318-6 (0-375-89318-0)

At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head directly toward the fighting in the hopes that she'll become "contraband," that is, property of the Union troops. Both Jeremy and Dulcie find a place with the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment and even start to forge a friendship. But all that is threatened when they keep crossing paths with the mysterious Charlie, a young Confederate soldier, who may look like the enemy but feels more like a friend.

Young readers who like their fiction filled with exciting historical details, rich characters, and action-packed adventures will be drawn to The Storm Before Atlanta.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

2010-12-28T00:30:00-05:00

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

Hardcover Library Binding, 320 pages | Random House Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship | $19.99 | 978-0-375-95866-3 (0-375-95866-5)

At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head directly toward the fighting in the hopes that she'll become "contraband," that is, property of the Union troops. Both Jeremy and Dulcie find a place with the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment and even start to forge a friendship. But all that is threatened when they keep crossing paths with the mysterious Charlie, a young Confederate soldier, who may look like the enemy but feels more like a friend.

Young readers who like their fiction filled with exciting historical details, rich characters, and action-packed adventures will be drawn to The Storm Before Atlanta.

From the Hardcover edition.

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

2010-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

eBook, 192 pages | EgmontUSA | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | $8.99 | 978-1-60684-196-9 (1-60684-196-3)

As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines.

During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire. Stores are looted; buildings, including the Colored Foundling Home, are burned down; and black Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The police cannot hold out against the rioters, and finally, battle-hardened soldiers are ordered back from the fields of Gettysburg to put down the insurrection, which they do–brutally.

Fifteen-year-old Claire, the beloved daughter of a black father and Irish mother, finds herself torn between the two warring sides. Faced with the breakdown of the city–the home–she has loved, Claire must discover the strength and resilience to address the new world in which she finds herself, and to begin the hard journey of remaking herself and her identity.

Addressing such issues as race, bigotry, and class head-on, Walter Dean Myers has written another stirring and exciting novel that will shake up assumptions, and lift the spirit.

From the Hardcover edition.

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

2009-09-22T00:30:00-05:00

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

Hardcover, 192 pages | EgmontUSA | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | $16.99 | 978-1-60684-000-9 (1-60684-000-2)

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

2009-09-22T00:30:00-05:00

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

Hardcover Library Binding, 192 pages | EgmontUSA | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | $19.99 | 978-1-60684-042-9 (1-60684-042-8)

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

1995-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Written by Deborah Hopkinson

Trade Paperback, 40 pages | Dragonfly Books | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 19th Century; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) | $6.99 | 978-0-679-87472-0 (0-679-87472-0)

2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt!

As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation--and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash of inspiration, Clara sees how she can use the cloth in her scrap bag to make a map of the land--a freedom quilt--that no master will ever suspect.

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

1992-01-15T00:30:00-05:00

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Written by Jeanette Winter

Trade Paperback, 48 pages | Dragonfly Books | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 19th Century; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) | $7.99 | 978-0-679-81997-4 (0-679-81997-5)

Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling. A fine rendering of history in picturebook format."--(starred) Booklist.

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

1988-11-19T00:30:00-05:00

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Written by Jeanette Winter

Hardcover, 48 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 19th Century; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) | $17.99 | 978-0-394-89694-6 (0-394-89694-7)

Random House New Releases - Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose Written by Jane Kendall Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose Written by Jane Kendall Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose Written by Jane Kendall Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died Stories from the GraveWritten by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died Stories from the GraveWritten by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died Stories from the GraveWritten by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died by Various

On the Day I Died Stories from the GraveWritten by Candace Fleming Read by Various

On the Day I Died by Various

On the Day I Died Stories from the GraveWritten by Candace Fleming Read by Various

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta Written by Karen Schwabach

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

Riot Written by Walter Dean Myers

The Red Badge of Courage by Scott Brick

The Red Badge of Courage Written by Stephen Crane Read by Scott Brick

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta Written by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta Written by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta Written by Karen Schwabach

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

Riot Written by Walter Dean Myers

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

Riot Written by Walter Dean Myers

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

Riot Written by Walter Dean Myers

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Written by Deborah Hopkinson

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Follow the Drinking Gourd Written by Jeanette Winter

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Follow the Drinking Gourd Written by Jeanette Winter

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming
Read by Various

On the Day I Died Stories from the Grave
Written by Candace Fleming
Read by Various

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

The Red Badge of Courage
Written by Stephen Crane
Read by Scott Brick

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Written by Deborah Hopkinson

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Written by Jeanette Winter

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Written by Jeanette Winter