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Name: Soldier's Heart

Author: Gary Paulsen
Year: 1998
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Genres/categories:
Young adult, Historical fiction, Fiction, War/Military, Children

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ISBNs:
9780440228387
0440228387

In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.

The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with "soldier's heart," later known as "battle fatigue."