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1) Red Cap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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English
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A Union trooper struggles to survive violence, overcrowding and disease in a Confederate prison during the Civil War. Ira Cahill Stevens must also fight the temptation to gain his freedom by switching sides. By the author of The Importance of High Places. Ira Cahill Stevens shares his experiences in an overcrowded Confederate prison camp, where he fights to survive under desperate conditions.
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"Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only fourteen months. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 62
Lexile measure
980L
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English
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From the Publisher: Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking...
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"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and almost 1,500 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which has a capacity of just under 400 passengers. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home...
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Union officer Nathan Parker and his soldiers find themselves imprisoned at Andersonville in July 1864. After hatching a plan for him to escape, make his way to Vicksburg and alert his superiors of his men's plight, he assures his men that a rescue effort will be attempted. When his efforts are blocked by superiors, he organizes a private rescue mission with the help of Marcel Lafarge, a dangerous ex-soldier and smuggler.
8) Gold fever
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Sharpshooter volume 02
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English
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Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells met the possibly mad artist Josephus McCade when they were prisoners in Andersonville, and he remembers well the strange man's rants about a "key" to unimaginable wealth. Now that the guns of the war between North and South have fallen forever silent, curiosity is drawing Jed back onto the trail of the eccentric McCade. But the artist's charmed life may soon be coming to a brutal end, thanks to a secret he will tell...
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Sharpshooter volume 03
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English
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Former Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells had vowed to give up killing after the war ended. Even after the last shot was fired, he continued to carry his hated sharpshooter's rifle as a grim reminder of what he once was. But while on a trip to a remote cattle town, his stagecoach is robbed, a man is killed, and his rifle is stolen. With the help of a hard-hitting cowboy named Charlie Crowder, Jed sets out to hunt down the two masked men responsible...
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