cover image For Home and Country: 9a Civil War Scrapbook

For Home and Country: 9a Civil War Scrapbook

Norman Bolotin. Dutton Books, $16.99 (112pp) ISBN 978-0-525-67495-5

The final volume of the Lodestar's Young Readers' History of the Civil War series, For Home and Country: A Civil War Scrapbook by Norman Bolotin and Angela Herb, is a handsomely designed compilation of historic photographs, etchings, correspondence and participants' own commentary, which presents an affecting portrait of this critical conflict ($16.99, 96p, ages 10-14 ISBN 0-525-67495-0 July).