Billy and the Rebel: Based on a True Civil War Story (Ready-to-Read Level 3) - Hardcover

Hopkinson, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689839642 ISBN 13: 9780689839641

Publisher: Simon Spotlight, 2005

Synopsis

This story is based on the life of Billy Bayly, a real boy who lived in Pennsylvania during the Civil War and had an unlikely friendship with a Southern soldier.

Ready-to-Read books offer children a world of possibilities at four different reading levels:

Pre-Level 1 Recognizing Words

· Word repetition
· Familiar words and phrases
· Simple sentences

Level 1 Starting to Read

· Simple stories
· Increased vocabulary
· Longer sentences

Level 2 Reading Independently

· More-complex stories
· Varied sentence structure
· Paragraphs and short chapters

Level 3 Reading Proficiently

· Rich vocabulary
· More-challenging stories
· Longer chapters

About this title

About the Author:

Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning children's books, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Reading Association Award, Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award, and Apples to Oregon, a Junior Library Guild Selection. She received the 2003 Washington State Book Award for Under the Quilt for the Night. She lives in Oregon. Visit her onlinw at DeborahHopkinson.com.

Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal; Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Lightship, also a Sibert Honor Book; and Racecar Alphabet, an ALA Notable Children’s Book. He has illustrated Avi’s Poppy Stories, Kate Messner’s Marty McGuire novels, and Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan’s Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, a Sibert Honor Book and winner of the Orbis Pictus Award. You can visit him online at BrianFloca.com.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-4–During the battle of Gettysburg, Billy hears a knock at the door in the middle of the night and finds an unexpected guest. "Cousin" has escaped from the Confederate Army, hungry, tired, and frightened. Seeing that this Rebel soldier is only a boy, Billy's mother takes him in and hides him. This easy-to-read story shows how bravery comes in many shapes. Based on the real William Bayly and his mother, Harriet Hamilton Bayly, it is written as fiction but allows beginning readers and researchers some insight into life during the Civil War. Full-page, full-spread, and spot art, executed mainly in shades of yellow and tan, add detail and expression to this story of courage and an unlikely friendship.–Bethany L. W. Hankinson, Miller Elementary School, Newark, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Spotlight
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0689839642
• ISBN 13: 9780689839641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Floca Brian