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Title: |
Soldier's Heart |
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Author: |
Paulsen, Gary |
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Date Published: |
1998 |
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Genre: |
Historical Fiction |
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Grade Level: |
5 -89 |
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Booktalker: |
Bonnie Phinney |
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Booktalk:
It was only a game, a big adventure. All the boys wanted to be a part of a real “shooting war.” Charley was 15 and this was his chance to be a man. And so, like many of his friends, he went – to Manassas Junction and Bull Run and Gettysburg.
Now it was no longer a game to Charley. “Make it all stop,” Charley screamed. “This is all a terrible mistake.”
In this century it’s been called “shell shock” and “battle fatigue.” Charley left home a 15 year old boy and returned home four years later, a broken man. Even though he came home, Charley died out there, as surely as did his companions. There was no name for it in the Civil War. Survivors, like Charley, came home with a
Soldier's Heart
by Gary Paulsen
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