IRA/CBC Teachers' Choice • Horn Book Fanfare • Library of Congress Children's 2019 Books • ALA Booklist Editor's 2019 Choice • Publishers Weekly Best Book • ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults • School Library Journal Best Book • Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction • ALA Best Book for Young Adults • ALA Notable Children's Book
In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal–winning author Paul Fleischman re-creates the first great battle of the Civil War from the points of view of sixteen participants.
Northern and Southern, male and female, white and black. Here are voices that tell of the dreams of glory, the grim reality, the hopes, horror, and folly of a nation discovering the true nature of war.
Narrated by George Guidall, Christina Moore, Andy Paris, Peter Francis James, Barbara Caruso, Robert Sevra, Johnny Heller, Tom Stechschulte, Richard Poe, Paul Hecht, John McDonough, Jeff Woodman, Sam Gray, Richard Davidson, Sally Darling, and Mark Hammer