My Vicksburg
Kindle Edition
HarperCollins · Ebook · August 29, 2011
Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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- Who it’s for
- A steady historical read that fits author-following and book-club conversation.
- Genres
- Civil War Era YA, War & Military YA, War & Military
- Published
- HarperCollins, August 29, 2011
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Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. Although many of the townspeople suffer from a lack of food, the Corbetts receive extra rations from Claire Louise's brother, Landon, a doctor with the Union army.
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When Claire Louise discovers her brother tending to a Confederate soldier who is responsible for Robert E. Lee's "lost order" (causing the South to lose the Battle of Antietam), she is forced to make a difficult choice between family and friends. Award-winning historical novelist Ann Rinaldi paints a story of family, courage, and secrets during the forty-seven-day siege of Vicksburg, a battle that has sometimes been ignored in history because it ended the same day as the Battle of Gettysburg.
History, Forward
A steady historical read that fits author-following and book-club conversation.
Come here for
- historical YA with a conversation-friendly edge
- teen perspective in a US-history frame
Expect
- sustained narrative pace
- period setting over spectacle
Where it sits
| Civil War Era YA | 100% |
|---|---|
| War & Military YA | 40% |
| War & Military | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Boys & Men
- Coming of Age
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- Historical YA
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- War & Military YA
- Colonial & Revolutionary YA
- 19th-Century US YA
- Civil War Era YA
- Authors
- Ann Rinaldi
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 29, 2011
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Boys & Men