I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the the Civil War era to students in intermediate-level grades:

• ...If You Lived At The Time Of The Civil War by Kay Moore
• Pink and Say by Polacco, Patricia
• Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington: 1837-1865 by Cheryl Harness
• Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War by Ann Warren Turner
• My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Civil War Diary by Mary Pope Osbourne
• Enemies of Slavery by David Adler
• Young Heroes of the North and South (Cobblestone the Civil War) by Sarah Hale
• Visual Dictionary of the American Civil War by John Stanchak
• Discovery Kids Magazine: Civil War Issue
• The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg by Linda Oatman High
• ...If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern
• . . . If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
• My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier by Lynda Durrant
• Hold the Flag High by Catherine Clinton
• Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Warren Turner
• Silent Thunder by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Abraham Lincoln by Amy L. Cohn and Suzy Schmidt
• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith