The Not So Boring Letters of Private Nobody by Matthew Landis*

Seventh grader Oliver Prichard considers himself a Civil War expert.  When he is forced to complete a Civil War history project with a girl who is failing seventh grade, he feels like his teacher has served him an injustice.  Then Ella draws the person they are researching . . .a Raymond Stone who dies, not in battle, but from dysentery!  Oliver wanted to research someone who was important, who made a difference.
As he and Ella investigate and create their presentation, they both uncover angles worth probing further.  Was their more to Private Stone's enlistment?
I would have loved having Mr. Carrow as my history teacher!
Mr. Landis includes family dynamics and their impact on children.
Entertaining and interesting!  Mr. Landis, a middle school history teacher, portrays seventh graders very well!!
*Highly recommend but see warnings.
Warnings: Romance . . . Spoiler alert: Oliver "falls in love" with Ella and thinks about kissing her a few times.    "Making out" is mentioned quite a few times, but it never happens.  I did not like the abbreviation -"O.M.G" used throughout the book.