Bull Run (novel)
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Bull Run is a historical novel for children by Paul Fleischman, published in 1993. It consists of sixteen monologues by participants in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. The novel has won several awards.
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[edit] Summary
The novel is a collection of monologues by sixteen characters, eight Northern and eight Southern, black and white, male and female, describing their personal experiences in the First Battle of Bull Run in the American Civil War in 1861. Issues such as race, gender, economic, social, and regional tensions are depicted throughout the novel.
[edit] Characters
Southerners: Colonel Oliver Brattle, Shem Suggs, Flora Wheelworth, Toby Boyce, Virgil Peavy, Dr.William Rye, Judah Jenkins, and Carlotta King
Northerners: Lily Malloy, Gideon Adams, James Dacy, Nathaniel Epp, Dietrich Herz, General Irvin McDowell, A.B. Tilbury, and Edmund Upwing.
[edit] Awards
Bull Run won several awards, including the 1994 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and was named a Best Book by the School Library Journal [1], a Notable Children's Books by the American Library Association, and a Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts by the National Council of Teachers of English. [2]
