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and Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets on the Christian Year

Rifles for Watie (Newbery Medal) by Harold Keith American poetry "Rosalind Creasy's enthusiasm and knowledgeWinner of the Newbery Medal * An ALA Notable Children's Book * Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award A captivating and richly detailed novel about one young soldier who saw the Civil War from both sides and lived to tell the tale. Earnest, plain spoken sixteen year old Jeff Bussey has finally gotten his father's consent to join the Union volunteers. It's 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff is eager to fight for the North before the war is over,