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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson (Dear America)
When Will This Cruel War Be Over The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson - Dear America
Author: Barry Denenberg
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
ISBN-13: 9780590228626
ISBN-10: 0590228625
Publication Date: 9/1/1996
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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Wednesday, November 23, 1864
Sometimes I try to remember what our lives udes to be like, but it has been so long I have difficulty conjuring up the images. I can, at times, picture the house when it was alive and full of activity.
This is a fictional journal of the life of a young girl during the Civil War.


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