Bull Run (novel)
Bull Run is a historical novel for children by Paul Fleischman, published in 1993. It consists of sixteen monologues by participants in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. The novel has won several awards.
Summary
The novel is a collection of monologues by sixteen fictional characters and one real one, eight Northern and eight Southern, black and white, male and female, describing their personal experiences in the First Battle of Bull Run of the American Civil War in 1861. Issues such as race, gender, and economic, social, and regional tensions are depicted throughout the novel. This book gives a clear vision of what went on in the civil war from medical tents to bodies on the battlefield. Bull Run has 102 pages to the story each chapter was an average of 1-3 pages
Characters
Northerners: Lily Malloy, Gideon Adams, Dietrich Herz, James Dacy, Nathaniel Epp, Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, A.B. Tilbury, Edmund Upwing and Dr.William Rye.
Southerners: Colonel Oliver Brattle, Shem Suggs, Flora Wheelworth, Toby Boyce, Virgil Peavy, Judah Jenkins and Carlotta King.
Awards
Bull Run won several awards, including the 2012 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and was named a Best Book by the School Library Journal, a Notable Children's Books by the American Library Association, and a Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts by the National Council of Teachers of English.