Picture Books

Beginning-to-Read Books

	Benchley, Nathaniel	GEORGE THE DRUMMER BOY A view of the incidents at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which were the start of the American Revolution, as seen from the eyes of George, a British drummer boy.	1977	61 p.
	Benchley, Nathaniel	SAM THE MINUTEMAN An easy-to-read account of Sam and his father fighting as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington.	1969	unpaged
	Lowrey, Janette	SIX SILVER SPOONS A Boston brother and sister travel to their grandmother's house on the eve of the battle at Concord.	1971	63 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
	Rappaport, Doreen	THE BOSTON COFFEE PARTY During the Revolutionary War, two young sisters help a group of Boston women get coffee from a greedy merchant. (based on a true story).	1988	63 p.

3rd - 4th Grade Books

Berleth, Richard

SAMUEL'S CHOICE Samuel, a 14-year-old slave in Brooklyn in 1776, faces a difficult choice when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his doorstep and only he can help the rebels.

1990

unpaged

Cuyler, Margery

THE BATTLEFIELD GHOST When fourth grader John and his sister Lisa move into an old house in Princeton, New Jersey, they find it haunted by the ghost of a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War and try to reunite him with the ghost of his beloved horse.

1999

103 p.

Gregory, Kristiana

FIVE SMOOTH STONES HOPE'S DIARY My America series, book I In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.

2001

109 p.

Gregory, Kristiana

WE ARE PATRIOTS HOPE'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR DIARY My America series, book II In her diary, 10-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army.

2002

101 p.

Griffin, Judith

PHOEBE AND THE GENERALnow known asPHOEBE THE SPY During the Revolution, Phoebe Fraunces has a chance to save the life of General George Washington while he has dinner at Mortier House in New York City.

1997

46 p.

Hoobler, Dorothy

THE SIGN PAINTER'S SECRET When the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, young Annie MacDougal finds a way to help General Washington's troops at Valley Forge.

1991

48 p.

Kirkpatrick, Katherine

REDCOATS AND PETTICOATS Members of a family in the village of Setauket on Long Island are displaced by the Redcoats and serve as spies for the Revolutionary Army of George Washington. 1778-1784.

1999

unpaged

Krensky, Stephen

DANGEROUS CROSSING THE REVOLUTIONARY VOYAGE OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS In 1778, ten-year-old Johnny Adams and his father make a dangerous mid-winter voyage from Massachusetts to Paris in hopes of gaining support for the colonies during the American Revolution.

2005

unpaged

Lunn, Janet

CHARLOTTE New York 1783. True story of Charlotte Haines whose father, an ardent rebel,forbade her to say goodbye to her cousins who were moving to Nova Scotia with the other Loyalists. Upon learning of her disobedience, Charlotte's father disowned her leaving the 10-year-old no alternative but to sail with her cousins and resume life in Saint John.

1998

unpaged

Monjo, F.N.

POOR RICHARD IN FRANCE Benjamin Franklin's seven-year-old grandson recounts the events of his grandfather's visit to France seeking aid for the revolutionaries in America. October 1776.

1973

55 p.

Noble, Tinka Hakes

THE SCARLET STOCKINGS SPY In 1777 Philadelphia, young Maddy Rose spies for General Washington's army by using an unusual code to communicate with her soldier brother.

2004

48 p.

Osborne, Mary Pope

REVOLUTIONARY WAR ON WEDNESDAY Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.

1999

29 p.

Quackenbush, Robert

DAUGHTER OF LIBERTY A chance encounter with General George Washington in upstate New York during the Revolutionary War leads a young woman to volunteer for a dangerous mission involving the retrieval of valuable papers. November, 1776. Tappan, New York.

1999

52 p.

Seabrooke, Brenda

THE CHESTER TOWN TEA PARTY Following in the example of the people of Boston, the patriots of Chester Town, Maryland dump tea into the bay to protest the unfair tea tax.

1991

28 p.

Tomes, Margot

THIS TIME, TEMPE WICK? Temperance Wick was a real colonial girl whose Tidy brown shingle house still stands the way it did 200 years agon on a quiet back road Near Morristown, New Jersey. 10 thousand Revolutionary soldiers spent the Winters of 1780 and 1781 in Jockey Hollow. Tempe pitched right in to help feed And clothe them, but when the soldiers tried to steal her horse Bon, Tempe got mad! .

1974

43 p.

Tripp, Valerie

MEET FELCITY AN AMERICAN GIRL In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

1992

69 p.

Tripp, Valerie

FELICITY LEARNS A LESSON Shortly before the Revolutionary War, nine-year-old Felicity, who lives in Williamsburg, is torn between supporting the tariff-induced tea boycott and saving her friendship with Elizabeth, a young loyalist from England.

1992

69 p.

Tripp, Valerie

CHANGES FOR FELICITY A WINTER STORY The outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 brings drastic changes to Felicity's life in Williamsburg, affecting both her family and her friendship with Elizabeth.

1992

69 p.

Tripp, Valerie

FELICITY SAVES THE DAY During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice.

1992

69 p.

Tripp, Valerie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FELICITY As her tenth birthday approaches, Felicity is excited by her grandfather's visit, but she is also concerned about the growing tensions between the colonists and the British governor in Williamsburg.

1992

69 p.

Tripp, Valerie

FELICITY' SURPRISE Christmas in Williamsburg means a dancing party at the Governor's Palace for Felicity, but her mother becomes very ill and cannot finish the special blue gown.

1992

69 p.

Turner, Ann

KATIE'S TRUNK Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home.

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

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Van Leeuwen, Jean

HANNAH OF FAIRFIELD Pioneer Daughters series For almost nine-year-old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small--from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.

1999

87 p.

Van Leeuwen, Jean

HANNAH'S HELPING HANDS Pioneer Daughters series In 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah and her family try to maintain a sense of normalcy as the Revolutionary War rages around them, threatening to destroy their way of life.

1999

88 p.

VanLeeuwen, Jean

HANNAH'S WINTER OF HOPE Pioneer Daughters series In 1780 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah worries about her brother Ben, a colonial soldier being held prisoner by the British, and joins her family in rebuilding their home and preparing for Ben's homecoming.

2000

89 p.

Waters, John

NIGHT RAIDERS ALONG THE CAPE When British raids off the coast of New England become more frequent, young Asa must row through the night to warn his friends on the Massachusetts coast of an impending attack.

1997

92 p.

Winnick, Karen

SYBIL'S NIGHT RIDE The true story of the young Sybil Ludington, who, like Paul Revere, rode through the countryside to alert the colonists that the British were coming. April 26 1777 what was then Fredricksburg, part of southern Dutchess County in New York. Today this area is Putnam County.

2000

unpaged

5th Grade and Up

Alsheimer, Jeanette

THE TROUBLE WITH TEA In Boston during the summer of 1773, Patience Burgess, a minister's daughter, is swept into the political tensions of the era while visiting her best friend.

2002

171 p.

Avi

THE FIGHTING GROUND Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.

1984

157 p.

Blackwood, Gary

THE YEAR OF THE HANGMAN In 1777, havingt been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, 15-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history. What if the British HAD won the Revolutionary War?

2002

261 p.

Boyd, James

DRUMS Johnny Fraser, the son of Scottish immigrants now living in North Carolina, goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and has adventures on both sides of the Atlantic.

1995

409 p.

Brady, Esther

TOLIVER'S SECRET During the Revolutionary War, a 10-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots.

1976

166 p.

Bruchac, Joseph

THE ARROW OVER THE DOOR The Saratoga Meeting or Easton Meeting of Quakers and Abenaki Indians near Saratoga, New York brings 14-year-old Samuel, called a coward for his Peace-loving Quaker beliefs and Stands Straight, a young scout for King George together during the summer of 1777.

1998

80 p.

Collier, James

THE 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.

Clapp, Patricia

I'M DEBORAH SAMPSON

1977

176 p.

Collier, James

MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

1974

216 p.

Collier, James

WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN 1775. A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears

1983

178 p.

Collier, James

THE WINTER HERO Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.

1978

152 p.

DeFord, Deborah

AN EMEMY AMONG THEM December 1776, Pennsylvania. A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German American family from Pennsylvania.

1987

203 p.

Denenberg, Barry

THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM THOMAS EMERSON, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT My Name is America series William, a 12-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to British rule. Boston, Summer 1774.

1998

130 p.

Durrant, Lynda

BETSY ZANE. THE ROSE OF FORT HENRY In 1781, 12-year-old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution. .

2000

187 p.

Fast, Howard

APRIL MORNING Re-creation of the fateful morning of April 19, 1775, on which British soldiers marched out of Boston to seize and destroy Colonial munitions stockpiled in Concord, Massachusetts. Although history doesn't record who actually fired the first shot on the Lexington green, here it is surmised that the skirmish was initiated by a Colonial zealot named Solomon Chandler. After Concord, Chandler leads ambushes against the retreating British that prove to be a frightening rite of passage for 15-year-old Adam Cooper, the mustered son of a patriotic and prinicipled farmer.

1961

202 p.

Forbes, Esthes

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. (Newbery Medal 1944)

1987

269 p.

Goodman, Joan

HOPE'S CROSSING When kidnapped by English Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope draws on every ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal.

1998

212 p.

Gregory, Kristiana

THE WINTER OF RED SNOW THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DIARY OF ABIGAIL JANE STEWART, VALLEY FORGE, PENNSYLVANIA 1777-78 The true story of the young Sybil Ludington, who, like Paul Revere, rode through the countryside to alert the colonists that the British were coming. April 26 1777 what was then Fredricksburg, part of southern Dutchess County in New York. Today this area is Putnam County.

1996

173 p.

Grote, JoAnn

THE AMERICAN VICTORY American Adventure series In 1781, with the surrender of Cornwallis signalling the end of the war, 8-year-old Paul Lankford is apprehensive about the return of his long-absent father and the nature of their relationship.

2000

143 p.

Grote, Joann

KATE AND THE SPIES Sisters in Time series The American Revolution Kate relies on God to decide which side she should choose in the American Revolution which is just beginning in Boston.

2004

141 p.

Jones, Elizabeth McDavid

PERIL AT KING'S CREEK AFelicityMystery Felicity is spending the summer of 1776 at her family's plantation, King's Creek. She enjoys riding her horse Penny every day, but she soon hears news that British soldiers are burning Patriot farms and stealing their animals.

2006

163 p.

Keehn, Sally

MOON OF TWO DARK HORSES At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast.

1995

218 p.

Lavender, William

JUST JANE Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.

2002

2267 p.

Lunn, Janet

THE HOLLOW TREE 1775. Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Olcott, distraught when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged as a British spy, becomes caught up in the turmoil of war when she decides to deliver the secret message Gideon was carrying to the British general at Fort Ticonderoga.

2000

208 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.

Miller, Susan

LYDIA THE PATRIOT Sisters in Time series The Boston Massacre Twelve-year-old Bostonian Lydia Lankford knows in her heart of hearts that the patriot cause is true and just-so why can't other members of her family see that, too? When the Boston Massacre occurs, this fictional colonist finds herself witnessing a spark that helps to ignite the American Revolution.

2004

140 p.

Myers, Anna

THE KEEPING ROOM Left in charge of the family by his father, who joins the Revolutionary War effort, 13-year-old Joey undergoes such great changes that he fears he may be betraying his beloved parent.

1997

135 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.

Olasky, Susan

ANNIE HENRY AND THE SECRET MISSION Adventures of the American Revolutions series, Book 1. Patriot Patrick Henry's ten-year-old daughter Annie helps save the wheat crop on their Virginia plantation from fire and her father from a Tory spy in Richmond.

1995

121 p.

Olasky, Susan

ANNIE HENRY AND THE BIRTH OF LIBERTY Adventures of the American Revolutions series, Book 2. In 1775 in Virginia, Patrick Henry's 10-year-old daughter, Annie, tries to concentrate on her day-to-day activities but is inincreasingly caught up in her father's role in the colonists' growing unrest.

1995

127 p.

Olasky, Susan

ANNIE HENRY AND THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER Adventures of the American Revolutions series, Book 3. Ten-year-old Annie Henry encounters conflicting values during the year she lives with her father in the Governor's Mansion in Williamsburg.

1996

144 p.

Olasky, Susan

ANNIE HENRY AND THE REDCOATS Adventures of the American Revolutions series, Book 4. In 1789, the year Annie Henry turns sixteen, her family moves to Leatherwood on the frontier and eventually she goes to Richmond, where she gets a close look at the Revolutionary War.

1996

127 p.

Paulsen, Gary

RIFLE A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

1999

105 p.

Pryor, Bonnie

THOMAS American Adventures series In the early years of the Revolutionary War, Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia.

1998

146 p.

Pryor, Bonnie

THOMAS IN DANGER sequel to: THOMAS Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an inn in Philadelphia, where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the Iroquois.

1999

170 p.

Reit, Seymour

GUNS FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON Frustrated with life under siege in George Washington's army, 19-year-old Will Knox and his brother, Colonel Henry Know, undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the dead of winter.

1990

96 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

CAST TWO SHADOWS The American Revolution in the South In South Carolina in 1780, 14-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.

1998

267 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

FIFTH OF MARCH Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

1993

335 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

FINISHING BECCA 14-year-old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's Betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War. 1778

1994

342 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

A RIDE INTO MORNING When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it.

1991

289 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

SECRET OF SARAH REVERE Spunky 13-year-old Sarah, the daughter of famous patriot Paul Revere, fears that her father's friend, Dr. Joseph Warren, has dishonorable feelings for her mother.

1995

320 p.

Rue, Nancy

THE INVASION Christian Heritage series. Williamsburg years; v 11 When British soldiers plunder his family's plantation near Williamsburg and the overseer hired by his father proves to be dishonest, 11-year-old Thomas takes matters into his own hands.

1997

188 p.

Rue, Nancy

THE BATTLE Christian Heritage series. Williamsburg years; v 6 While the Revolutionary War wages all around him, 12-year-old Thomas fights his own internal battles involving anger, frustrations, and loack of trust in God.

1997

188 p.

Rue, Nancy

THE REBEL Christian Heritage series. Williamsburg years; v 1 10-year-old Thomas Hutchinson struggles with his rebellious nature in the face of a stern father while also experiencing the rising tensions caused by the Revolutionary War.

1996

188 p.

Sterman, Betsy

SARATOGA SECRET In 1777, as General Burgoyne and his British troops invade the upper Hudson River valley, 16-year-old Amity must carry a secret message to the Continental Army to give waring of an impending attack.

1998

267 p.

Stratemeyer, Edward

THE MINUTE BOYS OF BUNKER HILL After participating in the terrible struggle at Bunker Hill, Roger, badly wounded, is separated from his friends and becomes a prisoner of the British.

1998

316 p.

Stratemeyer, Edward

THE MINUTE BOYS OF LEXINGTON In the spring of 1775, determined to help free the colonies from British rule, 16-year-old Roger Morse and his friends organize their own military company and find themselves participating in the first battles of the Revolution at Lexington and Concord.

1996

304 p.