Kay, Verla

HOMESPUN SARAH Simple rhyming text presents the everyday life of a young girl, living on a Pennsylvania farm in the early 1700's.

2003

unpaged

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

THE BEAR THAT HEARD CRYING A fictionalized retelling of the true story of 3-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue 4 days later.

1996

unpaged

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

WILDERNESS CAT Papa's announcement that Moses, the cat, couldn't move to Canada with the family devastated Serena. Their journey from Vermont in the late 1700's into the Canadian wilderness was hard. Papa and brother Luke return to Craftsbury to earn money to keep the family alive, but back home, a miracle brings relief to the wilderness cabin.

1992

unpaged

Siegelson, Kim

IN THE TIME OF THE DRUMS Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.

1999

unpaged

	Fritz, Jean	GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOTHER 1708-1789 Virginia. Describes the life of our first President's mother and her children.	1992	48 p.
	Herman, John	RED, WHITE AND BLUE THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN FLAG Describes how the American flag came into being, how it has changed over the years, and its importance as the symbol of our country.	1998	48 p.
	Murphy, Frank	GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE GENERAL'S DOG Recounts events in the life of George Washington that focus on his fondness for animals.	2002	unpaged

Birch, Beverley

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S ADVENTURES WITH ELECTRICITY Description of Franklin's kite experiment and subsequent work with electricity in the 1750's.

1996

unpaged

Dalgliesh, Alice

THE COURAGE OF SARAH NOBLE Based on a true story, 8-year-old Sarah and her father travel from Westfield, Massachusetts to New Milford Connecticut so she can cook for him while he builds the family home. 1707 .

1982

53 p.

Ingoglia, Gina

JOHNNY APPLESEED AND THE PLANTING OF THE WEST Disney's AMERICAN FRONTIER #5 In 1794, Johnny Chapman and his younger brother Nat left their home in Massachusetts to seek adventure and a new life in the West. Johnny was so grateful for the kindnesses he received on their way that he decided to devote the rest of his life to helping others. By planting hundreds of apple orchards across the frontier, Johnny made sure that people would at least have something to eat.

1992

75 p.

Krensky, Stephen

THE PRINTER'S APPRENTICE In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government.

1995

100 p.

Mandrell, Louise

RUNAWAY THANKSGIVING In 1787 Kentucky, 11-year-old Reba runs intothe forest with her pet turkey Moses to protect him from being killed and cooked for Thanksgiving dinner, but surprises and danger await her in the wilderness.

1992

unpaged

Turner, Ann

WHEN MR. JEFFERSON CAME TO PHILADELPHIA WHAT I LEARNED OF FREEDOM, 1776 A young boy is fascinated by a lodger at his mother's boardinghouse in the summer of 1776. It turns out that the interesting lodger is Thomas Jefferson. Turner's simple text explains about Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.

2004

unpaged

Van Leeuwen, Jean

THE AMAZING AIR BALLOON In this story, based on true events, a 13-year-old apprentice takes the first manned hot-air balloon flight in America and gains new insight into life's possibilities.

2003

unpaged

Jones, Elizabeth

LADY MARGARET'S GHOST A Felicity Mystery American Girl In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.

2009

171 p.

Anderson, Laurie

FEVER 1793 In 1793 Philadelphia, 16-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perserverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

2000

243 p.

Avi

CAPTAIN GREY Following the Revolution, an 11-year-old boy becomes the captive of a ruthless man who has set up his own nation supported by piracy, on a remote part of the New Jersey coast.

1977

141 p.

Avi

NIGHT JOURNEYS Pennsylvania-New Jersey border in 1768. Two young endentured servants escape into Pennsylvania and receive help from 12-year-old Peter York and his guardian, Everett Shinn, a devout Quaker.

1979

143 p.

Bradley, Kimberly

WEAVER'S DAUGHTER In 1791 after her family's journey from Pennsylvania, 10-year-old Lizzie suffers from the disease of asthma in her new home in the Southwest Territory (present-day Tennessee).

2000

162 p.

Collier, James

BLOODY COUNTRY In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.

1976

183 p.

Curry, Jane Louise

DARK SHADE 16-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.

1998

168 p.

Dubois, Muriel

ABENAKI CAPTIVE In 1752, 18-year-old Abenaki warrior Ogistin is present when a band of his people capture an English trapper, John Stark, and as Stark is carried into captivity in Canada a bond of hate and competition develops between him and Ogistin.

1994

173 p.

Durrant, Lynda

THE BEADED MOCCASINS THE STORY OF MARY CAMPBELL After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, 12-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.

1998

171 p.

Durrant, Lynda

ECHOHAWK A twelve-year-old white boy, adopted and raised by Mochicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730's, is sent with his younger brother to an English settlement for schooling.

1996

181 p.

Durrant, Lynda

TURTLE CLAN JOURNEY sequel to ECHOHAWK As the captive white boy Echohawk and his Mohican father and brother make a perilous journey from the Hudson River Valley to a settlement on the Ohio River, Echohawk feels the conflicting pulls of his dual heritage.

1999

180 p.

Edmonds, Walter

THE MATCHLOCK GUN In 1756, during the French and Indian War, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, Spanish gun that his father gave him before leaving home to fight. (Newbery Medal 1942)

1941

50 p.

Fast, Howard

APRIL MORNING April 19, 1775. A young man's baptism by fire during the bloody battle of Lexington.

1961

202 p.

Field, Rachel

CALICO BUSH 1932 Newbery Honor Book. In 1742-1743, 13-year-old Marguerite Ledoux, a young French emigrant, finds herself all alone in the New World after her uncle and grandmother die. She agrees to be "bound" to a family who are moving to begin a farm on an isolated section of the coast of colonial Maine. This novel depicts farm life in colonial America and the interactions on a young girl in a whole new culture.

1931

201 p.

Fleishman, Paul

PATH OF THE PALE HORSE Lep, an apprentice to a doctor, helps his master take care of yellow fever victims in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793.

1983

147 p.

Forbes, Esther

JOHNNY TREMAIN After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. 1773.

1971

293 p.

Fritz, Jean

EARLY THUNDER Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists. 1774-75.

1967

225 p.

Genty, G.A

WITH WOLFE IN CANADA or The Winning of a Continent The Battle of Quebec 1759.

1999

353 p.

Giblin, James Cross

THE BOY WHO SAVED CLEVELAND 1798. During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone. Based on a true story.

2006

62 p.

Grote, JoAnn

DANGER IN THE HARBOR GRAIN RIOTS THREATEN BOSTON The American Adventure series When Queen Anne's War leaves Boston with major problems such as food shortages and riots, ten-year-old Beth and her family struggle to survive peacefully.

1998

137 p.

Grote, JoAnn

QUEEN ANNE'S WAR

1998

136 p.

Keehn, Sally

I AM REGINA In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, 10-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in central Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.

1991

235 p.

Ketchum, Liza

WHERE THE GREAT HAWK FLIES 1782.Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal the past.

2005

264 p.

Jones, Elizabeth McDavid

MYSTERY ON SKULL ISLAND American Girl History Mysteries In 1724, 12-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.

2001

173 p.

Lawlor, Laurie

ADVENTURE ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD, 1775 American Sisters series The Poage family's journey from Tennessee to Kentucky.

1999

178 p.

Lawlor, Laurie

HORSEBACK ON THE BOSTON POST ROAD,1704 American Sisters series As the winter of 1704 approaches, New Englanders are reeling from the news of war with the French and Indians. A mysterious letter has arrrived for Madame Sarah Kemble Knight, instructing her to bring the identical twin servants, 12-year-old Hester and Philena, on a long, dangerous journey by horse from Boston toward New Haven, Connecticut. But Madame Knight decides to take only one of the twins, who have been bound in servitude to her since infancy. Devastated, Hester starts off with her mistress, leaving her sister behind.

2000

177 p.

Lutz, Norma

MAGGIE'S DARE Sisters in Time series The Great Awakening A twelve-year-old Bostonian finds her heart stirred by a major spiritual revival and determines she must dare to help a mistreated slave girl. 1744.

2005

142 p.

Matcheck, Dianne

THE SACRIFICE When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a 15-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.

1998

194 p.

McCaughrean, Geraldine

THE PIRATE'S SON Left penniless in 18th century England, 14-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past. 1717.

1998

295 p.

McKissack, Patricia

LOOK TO THE HILLS THE DIARY OF LOZETTE MOREAU, A FRENCH SLAVE GIRL New York Colony, 1763 Dear American Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

2004

188 p.

Miller, Susan Martins

BOSTON REVOLTS! American Colonist Fight the Kings Taxes The American Adventure #9series During the Christmas season of 1764 in an increasingly tense Boston, 12-year-old Kathleen Lankford and her 14-year-old brother William rish danger when they try to help a soldier wounded in a mob riot against British rule.

2000

142 p.

Moore, Robin

MAGGIE AMONG THE SENECA Maggie Callahan journeys across the rugged Pennsylvania frontier to find her kin but, just before she reaches the destination, she is taken captive by a band of Seneca warriors and forced to travel with them along the war trail. 1778.

1987

99 p.

Myers, Walter Dean

GLORY FIELD Follows a family's two-hundred year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.

1994

375 p.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

ANN'S STORY: 1747 Young Americans Colonial Williamsburg Ann, a young girl in 18th century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study Latin or mathematics.

2000

118 p.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

CAESAR'S STORY: 1759 Young Americans Colonial Williamsburg After having been a slave on Carter's Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future.

2000

133 p.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

MARIA'S STORY: 1773 Young Americans Colonial Williamsburg In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, 9-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reposrts and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper. 1773.

2001

138 p.

Nordoff, Charles

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY THE H.M.S. Bounty, set sail from England in 1787 bound for Tahiti. Part of the crew mutinies and sets Captain Bligh, a harsh taskmaster, and 18 others adrift in a small boat. The mutineers and nonmutineers on the ship then divide. Some seek refuge on an uncharted island, while others stay on Tahiti, eventually to be arrested and court-martialed.

1932

379 p.

O'Dell, Scott

SARAH BISHOP Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness (Long Island).

1980

184 p.

Peckham, Howard

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON YOUNG TIPPECANOE Young Patriots Series A biography focusing on the early years of the man who distinguished himself at the Battle of Tippecanoe and was later elected the 9th president of the United States.

2000

110 p.

Richter, Conrad

THE LIGHT IN THE FOREST 1764-65. An Indian village in Ohio and a white settlement in western Pennsylvania. A white boy captured and reared by Indians is forcibly returned to his white family. Unable to readjust to white civilization, he attempts to rejoin his foster Indian family but is banished for refusing to help ambush white settlers.

1966

176 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

A BREAK WITH CHARITY A STORY ABOUT THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

1992

224 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

THE SECOND BEND IN THE RIVER In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.

1997

265 p.

Shaik, Fatima

MELITTE In 1772, years of mistreatment force 13-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.

1997

144 p.

Spear, Elizabeth George

CALICO CAPTIVE August 1754. Miriam's town of Charlestown, New Hampshire is shattered by warhoops as the Indians take townspeople prisoner. Marched through the wilderness to the north, and sold to the French in Montreal they are held for ransom. Takes place at the brink of the French and Indian War.

1957

272 p.

Spear, Elizabeth George

THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in 18th-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

1983

135 p.

Steele, William

THE BUFFALO KNIFE Andy Clark's family travels a thousand miles by flat-boat down the Tennessee river in 1782 to the French Salt Lick on a dangerous voyage.

1952

177 p.

Trottier, Maxine

A CIRCLE OF SILVER Book I in the Circle of Silver Trilogy In 1760, thirteen-year-old John MacNeil, a skilled artist, leaves England and his beloved twin sister to join his father on a journey to the Canadian wilderness, where his role as official cartographer brings him often dangerous adventures, including an encounter with Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas.

1999

216 p.

Trottier, Maxine

BY THE STANDING STONE Book II in the Circle of Silver Trilogy Two kidnapped young men, forced to travel through the North American wilderness on the eve of the American Revolution, try to thwart the evil that stalks them, meeting brave allies, thrilling political intrigue, and even love.

1999

216 p.

Wiley, Melissa

THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE HIGHLAND The Martha Years The childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of 6-year-old Matha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. 1788.

1991

279 p.

Willis, Patricia

DANGER ALONG THE OHIO Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793, 12-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.

1997

181 p.

Wood, Frances M.

BECOMING ROSEMARY While 12-year-old Rosemary observes life in 1790 North Carolina, she is forced to deal with the safety of her family as she becomes friends with a woman about whom malicious gossip is spread.

1997

247 p.

Wyeth, Sharon

ONCE ON THIS RIVER While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, 11-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.

1998

144 p.