Carolyn Reeder

• 1989
• / Historical
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The Civil War was over, but it had taken a terrible toll on twelve-year-old Will Page. His father and brother had been killed by the Yankees; his sisters died of typhoid, and his mother of grief. An orphan, Will was forced to live with his Uncle Jed,...

• Nov-1991
• / General Fiction
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During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national park....

• Mar-1998
• / General Fiction
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From the award-winning author of Shades of Gray comes the story of eleven-year-old Foster Simmons, whose brother is overseas fighting in World War II, and his personal battles on the home front with his authoritarian father....

• Dec-1998
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Edward thought of Simon as his friend and never imagined life without his companion and slave. But when the Union army invades Virginia and takes over Edward's family's plantation, Edward's family flees to nearby Petersburg, while Sim...

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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A tattered flag above Fort Sumter . . . riots in the streets . . . Union troops occupying private homes and harassing citizens . . . The months before the first major battle of the Civil War were marked by confusion, deep emotion, and bitter divis...

• Feb-2003
• / Historical
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Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raise...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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Fritz (a.k.a. Franklin) is determined to find out what makes the small southwestern town where he now lives so secret that it's not on any map and no one is allowed to say or write its name. He and his seventh-grade classmate Kathy join forces as the...