Girl in Blue

By Ann Rinaldi

Subjects: Spies, fiction, History, Washington (D.C.) Civil War, 1861-1865, Juvenile fiction, Sex role, fiction, Fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Children's fiction, Washington (d.c.), fiction, Sex role, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Spies

Description: 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.