Bull Run
Book description
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book
In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman re-creates the first great battle of the…
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1 author picked Bull Run as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love a book with maps, and this has two. The author crafted sixteen fictional characters, each with their own voice, no two alike, populating both sides of the Civil War. Male, female, black, white, Northern, or Southern, these fictional characters represented all aspects of the population.
I was halfway through the book, flipping back and forth to keep the characters straight when I realized a list at the back identified each character's affiliation. Who was my favorite? Each touched me, although my heart lurched when the teen who joined to escape his father’s beatings was killed.
I am humbled…
From M.'s list on civil war ordinary people blood guts.
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