Title: Anybody's Hero
Description: In June 1864, twelve-year-old Luca and his friend Jim join Luca's grandfather and the other old men and boys of Petersburg, Virginia, to defend the city from the advancing Union army.
Subjects: Fiction, Friendship, Grandfathers, History, Juvenile fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Virginia Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Petersburg (Va.), United States, Virginia
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, Siege, 1864-1865