Girl in Blue

Ann Rinaldi First published 2001

About this book

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

Subjects

children's fiction
fiction
history
juvenile fiction
sex role
sex role, fiction
spies
spies, fiction
united states civil war, 1861-1865
united states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
washington (d.c.) civil war, 1861-1865
washington (d.c.), fiction