A Civil War drummer boy Book

This is an autobiography nonfiction book, meaning that it is the story of a real person's life that is written by that person. This book is about a boy during the civil war who was to young to fight so he was a drummer. He witnessed the immense hardships of disease and death that many soldiers endured throughout the war. All throughout the war he wrote his experiences in a diary and that is what this book is. The intended ages for this book are 8-14.

The book I chose to pair this with is called The Child's Civil War by James Marlen. This book is about the civil war from a child's perspective. It is a realistic fiction book because it contains made-up characters but with situations that could have happened in real life. The intended ages for this book are 9-12.

I chose to pair these books because they are both different perspective of the same war and have similar target audiences. After reading the factual information from the Diary of William Bircher, it would be helpful for students to then apply that information to an enticing fictional story that comes from a point of view of their age.