Shades of Gray is a 1989 novel by Carolyn Reeder about a boy named Will.

At the end of the American Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, an orphan, is left to live with his aunt and uncle.

He considers his uncle a traitor and a coward because he refuses to be a Confederate and take any part in the war at all.

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