Civil War Days

Ellen Weiss. Aladdin Paperbacks, $3.99 (79pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84671-7

Based on Rachel Field's 1929 classic, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Hitty's Travels: Civil War Days by Ellen Weiss, illus. by Betina Ogden, features the doll heroine in a chapter book format. Here Hitty belongs to a plantation owner's daughter as the girl befriends Sarina, an enslaved girl. (Sept.)

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