num_pages: 64
description: In the spring of 1863, a thirteen-year-old boy leaves his home in northeastern Tennessee with his father, who has joined the Confederate army. The boy rides with him to care for the horses and help with camp duties. A moving personal narrative in the form of a journal, this powerful poem tells of one boy's journey into war - and the horrible climax at Gettysburg that would forever change his life. Illustrated with striking black-and-white woodcuts, Moon Over Tennessee is a vivid, lyrical, and intensely human document of the terrible personal cost of the Civil War.
language: English
title: Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal
titlecomplete: Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal
genres: Historical Fiction, War, Poetry, Journal, Historical, Civil War, Juvenile, Fiction, Middle Grade, American Civil War
ratings_count: 28
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award
publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers