A soldier's secret : the incredible true story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero

Title
: 
A soldier's secret : the incredible true story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero

Author
: 
Moss, Marissa.

ISBN
: 
9781419704277

Publication Information
: 
New York : Amulet Books/Abrams, 2012.

Physical Description
: 
387 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Reading Level
: 
860 L Lexile

Personal Subject
: 
Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn), 1841-1898-Fiction.

Subject Term
: 
Women soldiers -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Soldiers -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Nurses -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Women spies -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Spy stories.
 
Espionage -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Impersonation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
: 
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female -- Fiction.
 
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Fiction.
 
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service -- Fiction.

Summary
: 
Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)TEEN FICTION MOSTeen Fiction