With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War

James Lincoln Collier. Laurel Leaf Library, $6.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-440-21983-5

PW called this work ""a strong, affecting picture of the Civil War era... of the privations of the home front as well as the chaos and carnage of the battlefield."" Ages 10-up. (Jan.)

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