Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Author: Rosemary Wells (1943 - )
Copyright: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-670-03638-7
Dewey Decimal Number: Fic WEL
Reading Range: ATOS Book Level = 4.7;
Interest Level = Middle Grades, Plus
AR Points = 8.0
Book Connection: Story of the Civil War with sympathy
for all parties
This well-researched
historical fiction tells of protagonist/narrator India Moody’s struggles
through the Civil War. When the war
begins, India is twelve years old living in the South’s rich Shenandoah Valley
and has been blessed with the comfort of a loving family, loving friends, and a
loving community. We share her loves,
fears, dangers, and pains as she grows from her naïve, protected world to carry
the burdens of friends and family in the horrors of this especially-bloody war. Uniquely, neither side of the horrific Civil
War is painted as villain or hero.
Mostly, we learn that war is monstrous.
