Girl in Blue

Sarah is around 16. Her father is extremely nasty, almost vicious, and she decides to disguise herself as a young boy, run off and join the Union army. She pulls that off quite well, and she ends up getting to take part in a battle where she learns the true horrors of war.

She ends up, though, working with Pinkerton and becomes a spy, put on a job to keep her eye on a woman who Pinkerton suspects is sending messages to the South. Just how she's doing this, though, he hasn't been able to figure out.

So Sarah passes herself off as a maid, basically. There's also a romantic interest for her, and she has to figure out if the guy she likes is working for the other side or not.

There's also an interesting event where Stanton visits the house with the suspect woman in it. There is a theory that Stanton was actually involved in a plot to kill Lincoln, and his visiting this house seems sort of suspicious, although it's not followed up in the story.

As with her other books, Rinaldi has done a good job. As always, she includes a section on the actual historical events and people in her novel.


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