Girl in Blue

Girl in Blue is a 2001 novel by Ann Rinaldi. It is a historical fiction that takes place during 1861, during the American Civil War.

Plot

Sarah Louisa Wheelock lives on a farm near a small village in Michigan in the 1860s. Her abusive father wants her to marry an abusive neighbor who has several children. Instead, she runs away to Flint, Michigan to stay with an aunt, and then ships out with the First Union Greys to fight in the Civil War as a man. She ends up working in a hospital as a gopher. She fights in the first Bull Run. After she is discovered to be a girl, she continues to work for the Union-spying on Rose O'Neal Greenhow. ^[1]^[2]

Reception

This novel takes many of its plot points from the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.^[3]

References

↑ http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/girl-blue#cart/cleanup
↑ GIRL IN BLUE by Ann Rinaldi, Reviewed by Audrey Marie Danielson, Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-439-67646-0, Teenreads.com
↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ann-rinaldi/girl-in-blue/

Novels by Ann Rinaldi

Episodes	A Ride into Morning (1991) A Break with Charity (1992) The Fifth of March (1993) Finishing Becca (1994) The Secret of Sarah Revere (1995) Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (1996) An Acquaintance with Darkness (1997) Cast Two Shadows (1998) The Coffin Quilt (1999) The Staircase (2000) Girl in Blue (2001) Numbering all the Bones (2002) Or Give Me Death (2003) An Unlikely Friendship (2007) Come Juneteenth (2007) The Ever-After Bird (2007) Juliet's Moon (2008) The Letter Writer (2008)

Other novels	Wolf by the Ears (1991) Girl in Blue (2001) The Redheaded Princess (2008)

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