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Rosemary Wells has long been a favorite of mine from reading "Morris's Disappearing Bag" and "Stanley and Rhoda" to my now 27 and 25 year old sons to reading "Mary on Horseback" to my 7th grade class last year. Her newly published "Red Moon at Sharpsburg" is possibly her best work so far. Told from the point of view of a young Southern girl during the Civil War, it offers a realistic view of the effect this bloody war had on the lives of the people whose emotions go from total optimism that the South would win in less than 90 days to the realization that the Southern way of life has disappeared forever. The characters are three dimensional and neither side comes across as noble. Rather, all aspects of war are well developed and described in almost poetic if sometimes graphic terms. I highly recommend this novel to all readers grade 7 on up.
P.S. Teachers of US History might want to incorporate this into a unit on the Civil War.


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Red Moon at Sharpsburg Rosemary Wells 9780670036387 Books Reviews

In "Red Moon at Sharpsburg", Rosemary Wells tells the story of India Moody & the ordeal her family would go through in their lives in Northern Virginia during the Civil War. The book itself is set in Berryville, VA in the Shenandoah Valley & starts off the vents just after First Manassas when the war was still new & the Confederacy was convinced this was their war to win. Across the months, weeks & years to follow we follow India & her family as the war hits home from her father going off to war as well as her teacher Emory. Additionally Wells takes us to Sharpsburg & the Battle of Antietam where India gets a firsthand look at the aftermath of war in an attempt to find her father. The book is historically accurate & the emotions in the book are raw as you feel for the Moody family & everyone else in this book as the characters are taken straight out of history. India herself fits into the period as a young Confederate girl who also dreams of something greater. Across 200+ pages & 4 years of war, Wells reminds us of the travails that every family both North & South faced in the Civil War in a book that may be one of the best I've read this year.
Since the teacher didn't have enough books for every student, that's why we purchase the book from your company so our granddaughter can make good grades, and be up on what the teacher questions them the next day.
Who's bright idea this was to make it other required reading for 8th grader? North Carolina Wake County Public School System Teachers of course. Do not recommend as required reading. If you are into depressing stories, by all means buy it and read it.
My daughter (13, 8th grade) loves to read. She reads a couple of hours every day and has read several historical novels and novels set in war time (Slaughterhouse Five, The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, The Diary of Anne Frank, even Calico Captive). One year it seemed that most books on the Battle of the Books list was about various wars.

In all of that reading, this is the first book (required reading for school), that she's had difficulty forcing herself to get through. She says it's probably one of the most dull books she has ever picked up. Coming from an avid reader who will read just about anything, I take this as a definite sign that this is a book that should be skipped.
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Great story of life during the civil war.
Rosemary Wells has long been a favorite of mine from reading "Morris's Disappearing Bag" and "Stanley and Rhoda" to my now 27 and 25 year old sons to reading "Mary on Horseback" to my 7th grade class last year. Her newly published "Red Moon at Sharpsburg" is possibly her best work so far. Told from the point of view of a young Southern girl during the Civil War, it offers a realistic view of the effect this bloody war had on the lives of the people whose emotions go from total optimism that the South would win in less than 90 days to the realization that the Southern way of life has disappeared forever. The characters are three dimensional and neither side comes across as noble. Rather, all aspects of war are well developed and described in almost poetic if sometimes graphic terms. I highly recommend this novel to all readers grade 7 on up.
P.S. Teachers of US History might want to incorporate this into a unit on the Civil War.