Title: Gideon Tell and the siege of Vicksburg
Description: Fourteen-year-old Gideon Tell, a photography spy for the Union Army, infiltrates Confederate-held Vicksburg to gather intelligence for General Grant while trying to evade suspicious Confederates, civilian refugees, war profiteers, and other shady characters and learns, in the process, about the complexity of human nature.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Spies, History, Fiction, Spy stories
Places: Vicksburg (Miss.)
Time periods: Siege, 1863