Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
By Gary Paulsen
Interest Level
Grades 7 - 9
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.9
Lexile Measure®: 1000
DRA: 44
Guided Reading: V
Genre
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Changes and New Experiences
- Confronting and Resolving Fears
- Civil War Period and Reconstruction
- American Civil War
- Character and Values
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About This Book
At the start of the Civil War in 1861, 15-year-old Charlie leaves his farm and enlists in the First Minnesota Volunteers. After experiencing the horrors of war, Charlie comes back a man changed forever.
This "stark, utterly persuasive novel of combat life" ("New York Times"), by a three-time Newbery Honor winner, explores the condition of battle fatigue.
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