"The story's pace and romantic tension build as the students gel as a team, research primary sources, and create a documentary. "Landis challenges readers to see history as more than 'endless battles, dates, and generals.' Each setting (school, homes, historical societies, reenactment practice field, and Gettysburg) adds another dimension to the characters and issues in this appealing novel." - Booklist Teacher Landis knows how middle schoolers work, and he shows his skill here." - Kirkus Reviews "For seventh-grader Oliver, nothing's fair when it comes to war, first love, or group projects. There's even a little romance thrown in! I wish I were still teaching just so I could hand this book to my favorite students." -Jordan Sonnenblick, award-winning author of Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie "Matthew Landis depicts the world of middle school with laser-like clarity, big-hearted warmth, and abundant humor, while also managing to bring Civil War history vividly to life. Matthew Landis's novel is the best kind of time travel as past and present cross-dissolve." -Richard Peck, Newbery Medal-winning author of A Year Down Yonder "A couple of tech savvy seventh-graders that readers will love getting to know go digging for a civil war soldier with a secret and discover themselves. Praise for The Not-So-Boring Letters of Private Nobody "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Even Private Stone is better than expected: There's a mystery buried in his past, and Oliver knows he can figure it out. As the partners film their documentary about Private Stone-with Oliver's friend Kevin signing on as their head writing consultant-Oliver discovers that sometimes the most interesting things are hiding in uninteresting places. And when Oliver finds out they have to research a random soldier named Private Raymond Stone who didn't even fight in any battles before dying of some boring disease, Oliver knows he's doomed.īut Ella turns out to be very different from what Oliver expected. So when the last assignment of seventh-grade history is a project on the Civil War, Oliver is over the moon-until he's partnered with Ella Berry, the slacker girl with the messy hair who does nothing but stare out the window. He knows everything about it: the battles, the generals, every movement of the Union and Confederate Armies. Twelve-year-old Oliver Prichard is obsessed with the Civil War.
A trio of seventh graders become one another's first friends as they discover the secrets of a Civil War soldier in this middle grade novel for fans of Gordon Korman and Gary Schmidt
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