A Ballad of the Civil War
by Mary Stolz
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Weary of the war, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the Civil War.Tags
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This book is a great example of historical fiction because it is a story about 2 twin brothers who grew up at the time the civil war was growing into being as well. The two brothers took two different sides of the war and were torn apart. This book realistically portrays the why the civil war was known as the "brothers' war" and truths about the war itself.
Media Used : Color Pencil
Age Appropriateness: Intermediate
Media Used : Color Pencil
Age Appropriateness: Intermediate
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Mary Stolz was born on March 24, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied at the Teachers College of Columbia University and the Katharine Gibbs School before going to work at Columbia as a secretary. She suffered from debilitating arthritis and wrote her first book during a long convalescence. To Tell Your Love was published in 1950. She wrote show more more than 60 children and young adult books during her lifetime including Ready or Not, Some Merry-Go-Round Music, Leap Before You Look, The Leftover Elf, Emmett's Pig, A Dog on Barkham Street, Cider Days, Ivy Larkin, and The Edge of Next Year. In a Mirror won a Child Study Children's Book Award and The Bully of Barkham Street won a Boys' Club Junior Book Award. Belling the Tiger and The Noonday Friends were named Newbery Honor books. In 1982, she received a George G. Stone Recognition of Merit Award for her entire body of work. She also wrote one adult novel entitled Truth and Consequence. She died of natural causes on December 15, 2006 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Tom Rigby; Jack Rigby
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- American Civil War
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