Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the first Minnesota volunteers : a novel of the Civil War / Gary Paulsen.
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TextPublication details: New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2000, c1998.Description: xv, 106 p. : map ; 20 cmISBN: - 0440228387 (pbk.)
- 0613283759 (Turtleback bdg.)
- 9780440228387 (pbk.)
- 9780613283755 (Turtleback bdg.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Paulsen Gar | Available | 33111007151083 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.
The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with "soldier's heart," later known as "battle fatigue."
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.