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Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal

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By Craig Crist-Evans
Publisher HMH Books for Young Readers
Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal
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In the spring of 1863, a thirteenyearold boy leaves his home in northeastern Tennessee with his father, who has joined the Confederate army. The boy rides with him to care for the horses and help with camp duties. A moving personal narrative in the form of a journal, this powerful poem tells of one boys journey into war and the horrible climax at Gettysburg that would forever change his life. Illustrated with striking blackandwhite woodcuts, Moon Over Tennessee is a vivid, lyrical, and intensely human document of the terrible personal cost of the Civil War.

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4900 words4,900 words
64 pages64 pages
Lexile 920LLexile 920L
Grade 5 to 9Grade 5 to 9
Published 1999Published 1999

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Book ISBN:

0395912083

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