Girl in blue

Rinaldi, Ann.

Book 2001

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home and becomes a Union soldier and spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

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