CIVIL WAR CIRCLE

                                   SUGGESTED READING

                                         BOOKS

 

Elementary

Frederick Douglass for Kids: His Life and Times, with 21 Activities by Nancy I. Sanders

 

Harriet Tubman For Kids: Discover the Incredible Story of the Courageous Woman Who Escaped From Slavery and Helped Free Thousands of Other Slaves: Biographies for Children by Ian D. Fraser

 

 

The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Janis Herbert

 

Time For Kids: Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield (Time for Kids Biographies)

 

John Brown: His Fight for Freedom  By John Hendrix

 

Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities  By Janis Herbert

 

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad  By Ellen Levine

 

Middle School

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? A Scholastic Biography, by Patricia C. McKissack  

 

Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross (Signature Lives: Civil War Era) by Barbara A. Somervill

 

Sterling Biographies: Frederick Douglass: Rising Up from Slavery  By Frances E Ruffin

 

Life on the Underground Railroad (The Way People Live) by Stuart A. Kallen    

 

 

High School

 

DK Biography: Clara Barton  by Stephen Krensky

 

What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War  By Chandra Manning

 

Echoes of Andersonville By Robert Diel Dean

 

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865: Bicentennial Jacket  By Abraham Lincoln

 

 

A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865
By Edwin S. Redkey

 

William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison

 

 

 

Books for Advanced readers  (high school)

Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement by Henrietta Buckmaster     

 

Make Free: The Story of the Underground Railroad by William A. Breyfogle

 

The Underground Railroad by Charles L. Blockson

 

 

Audio Books

Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (The Library of American Lives and Times Series) by Mary G. Butler