# Rifles for Watie

**Author:** Harold Keith
**Grade range:** Grades 5–9
**Age range:** 10–14
**First published:** 1957
**Page count:** 332
**Genre:** Historical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780833519344`
**ISBN-10:** `0833519344`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/rifles-for-watie
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy.

## Themes

- united states civil war, 1861-1865
- history
- wars, 1862-1865
- child soldiers

## Where this book is assigned

### Newbery Medal

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1958 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1958 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1958 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1958 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1958 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)

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