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Abraham's Battle |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Banks, Sara Harrell | Illustrator: |
| Title: Abraham's Battle | Date: 1999 |
| Publisher: Atheneum | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-689-81779-7 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: Yes |
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): historical fiction | |
GED Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| An ex-slave named Abraham, a young Confederate soldier, and a girl from Gettysburg meet in the cataclysmic days of the Civil War battle. Abraham meets Lincoln after the President gives his famous address. | |
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| Teachers will want to use this book in a Civil War text set that includes Polacco's Pink and Say, Murphy's A Boy's War, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Freedman's Lincoln, Fleischman's Bull Run, and Paulsen's Soldier's Heart. The Civil War matrix on this website under Trade Books Table of Contents, GED Matrices provides additional topic possibilities. The well-drawn characters offer possibilities for comparison and contrast activities and discussion on what they represent about the North and South. The multiple meanings of the title could be explored in discussion or writing. The map of the Gettysburg battlefield in the book and others on the web sites below encourage students to follow the stages of the battle. web sites: users.lr.net/~duda, www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm, www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/Gettysburg/Gettysburg.html | |
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