Although the premise echoes that of Caroline Cooney’s The Face on the Milk Carton As they embark on two projects-building a medieval castle for social studies and solving the mystery of Sam’s past-they also construct a solid friendship, despite Caroline’s parents’ plans for another, imminent move. Learning the truth requires research, and Sam, a special-needs student who has trouble reading, solicits help from Caroline, a new girl at school. ) creates what she calls a “jig-saw puzzle” of a book, showing readers how Sam pieces together artifacts and his own flashbacks to find out whether Mack, the man he has lived with for as long as he can remember, really is his grandfather. In this exquisitely rendered story of self-discovery, Giff ( Lily’s Crossing The day before he turns 11, Sam searches the attic for hidden birthday presents and discovers more than he bargained for: a newspaper clipping showing a photograph of him as a missing child. Featuring archival images, eyewitness accounts, and beautiful artwork that further brings the history to life, The Civil War is the action-packed and ultimate follow-up to the #1 bestsellers The Patriots and The Real West. An epic struggle between the past and future, the Civil War sought to fulfill the promise that 'all men are created equal.' It freed an enslaved race, decimated a generation of young men, ushered in a new era of brutality in war, and created modern America. Grant, Jefferson Davis, John Wilkes Booth, William Tecumseh Sherman, and more.

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From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and often little known stories behind the battle lines of America's bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its greatest figures, including Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E.

The next installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history.

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