Red Cap

G. Clifton Wisler. Puffin Books, $5.99 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-14-036936-6

These vivid historical novels each center on an imperiled male protagonist: in the first, a 13-year-old lies about his age to enlist in the Union Army, while The Raid brings danger for 14-year-old Lige when his brother is kidnapped in an Indian attack. Ages 10-up.(Aug.)

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