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24 titles for readers of The Civil War by Peter Benoit, selected for shared themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States, and Juvenile Nonfiction.

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Freedom Train The Story of Harriet Tubman — Dorothy Sterling

Freedom Train The Story of Harriet Tubman

Dorothy Sterling

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Eyewitness The Civil War — DK

Eyewitness The Civil War

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Battles of the American Civil War — Catherine Clinton

Battles of the American Civil War

Catherine Clinton

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Battles of the Civil War — Wendy Conklin

Battles of the Civil War

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Riders of the Pony Express — Ralph Moody

Riders of the Pony Express

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln — Lynda Jones

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

What Was the Battle of Gettysburg? — Jim O’Connor

What Was the Battle of Gettysburg? — Jim O’Connor

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Who Was Clara Barton? — Stephanie Spinner

Who Was Clara Barton?

Stephanie Spinner

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Action Presidents #2: Abraham Lincoln! A Graphic Novel Biography — Fred Van Lente

Action Presidents #2: Abraham Lincoln! A Graphic Novel Biography

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address — Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Young Frederick Douglass Freedom Fighter — Andrew Woods

Young Frederick Douglass Freedom Fighter

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Civil War Visual Encyclopedia — DK

The Civil War Visual Encyclopedia

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Stonewall Jackson’s Black Sunday School — Rickey Pittman

Stonewall Jackson’s Black Sunday School

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Frederick Douglass — John Passaro

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Memoir of Tillie Pierce An Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg — Pamela Jain Dell

Memoir of Tillie Pierce An Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg

Pamela Jain Dell

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Abraham Lincoln A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last — Mary Pope Osborne

Abraham Lincoln A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last

Mary Pope Osborne

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad — Louise Chipley Slavicek

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

Louise Chipley Slavicek

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad — Ebony Wilkins

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Magnificent Mischief of Tad Lincoln — Raymond Arroyo

The Magnificent Mischief of Tad Lincoln

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe? — Dana Meachen Rau

Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Dana Meachen Rau

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Sojourner Truth — Peter Krass

Sojourner Truth

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Ulysses S. Grant and His Family Paper Dolls — Tom Tierney

Ulysses S. Grant and His Family Paper Dolls

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

Abraham Lincoln — Emma E. Haldy

Abraham Lincoln

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States • Juvenile Nonfiction

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Civil War by Peter Benoit. Connected by Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States, Juvenile Nonfiction. Authors featured include Dorothy Sterling, DK, Catherine Clinton, Wendy Conklin, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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