By Hunt, Irene  Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

By Myers, Anna  In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

By Beatty, Patricia  During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

By Rinaldi, Ann  Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.

By Wilson, John 

As the Civil War draws near, Nate knows he must fight for his Southern homeland. Meanwhile, his cousin Walt in Canada fears that Britain and her colonies could be drawn into the war--on the side of the Confederate South, and slavery. Walt believes slavery is wrong. He could never fight in defense of it. Nate and Walt have never met, but as a country descends into chaos, a runaway slave named Sunday is about to change the cousins' lives forever.

By Rinaldi, Ann  To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

By Rinaldi, Ann  In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry.

By Rinaldi, Ann  In 1864, as the Civil War is moving toward an end, President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for 13-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life.