Civil War Books that are appropriate for elementary students. It may even peak there
interest by reading one of these aloud or together as a group.
After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Diary, Book Two by Mary Pope Osborne (Lexile 600) (ISBN # 0439201381)
America's Civil War by L. L. Owens (Lexile 480) (ISBN # 0789153009)
A Ballad of the Civil War by Mary Stolz (Lexile 680) (ISBN # 0060273623)
Battles of the Civil War by Daniel Rosen (Lexile 630) (ISBN # 1410862593)
The Burning of the Valley, The Civil War by Anne Schraff (Lexile 710) (ISBN # 0789152509)
The Children's Civil War
by James Marten (Lexile 1510) (ISBN # 0807824259)
Civil War Days by Ellen Weiss (Lexile 400) (ISBN # 0689846711)
The Civil War by Shirley Jordan (Lexile 520) (ISBN # 0789129035)
Civil War; Life Back Home by Nancy-Jo Hereford (Lexile 750) (ISBN # 1400740533)
Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies by Mary E. Lyons and Muriel M. Branch (Lexile 780)
(ISBN # 0689823797)
Freedom Knows No Color, The Civil War by Anne Schraff (Lexile 670) (ISBN # 0789151367)
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore (Lexile 840) (ISBN # 0590454226)
Kids During the Civil War by Lisa A. Wroble (Lexile 630) (ISBN # 0823951235)
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse (Lexile 850) (ISBN # 0599567330)
The Magic Tree House #21 Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne (Lexile 340) (ISBN# 067989067X)
Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal by Craig Crist-Evans (Lexile 920) (ISBN # 0395912083)
On Both Sides of the Civil War by Thomas S. Owens (Lexile 590) (ISBN # 0789158760)
Spies of the Civil War by Carol Domblewski (Lexile 530) (ISBN # 0439597811)
Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin (Lexile 870) (ISBN # 0689318375)
The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War by Carol Mattas (Lexile 780) (ISBN # 0689829353)
Books without Lexiles
Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's Life in the Civil War (Young Reader's Hist- Civil War) by Delia Ray
Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to Battlefields, Monuments, and More by Civil War Preservation Trust
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War by
Ina Chang
USKids History: Book of the American Civil War by Howard Egger-Bovet
