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Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
319p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
Book 1 of Heirs of Acadia, continuing the story told in the bestselling Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn Song of Acadia series. Erica Langston's comfortable home and loving family living near Washington, D.C., carry no outward hint of the sorrows and fears faced by her Acadian forebears, but she will soon discover that similar determination and fortitude will be required of her. When the British once again invade the nation's capital and leave death...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
91 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A quest story to find the three pieces of a magical engine which can either win the War of 1812...or stop it altogether"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama gives her a terrible order: burn the shipyard to the ground....
Author
Series
Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates volume Book 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
384 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Caroline and her friends Rhonda and Seth go out fishing, they sight an American supply boat being pursued by a British warship, and Caroline must come up with a daring plan to notify the town and save the boat.
12) The flag maker
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caroline and her mother make a danagerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard.
16) Salt
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A letter arrives for Caroline, asking her to come help her uncle Aaron and cousin Lydia on their new farm for the summer. Although Caroline is reluctant to leave her family, she's eager to lend a hand. So when she suspects that a thief has been stealing much-needed food from the farm, Caroline helps keep watch to guard against the uninvited visitor. Then she makes an unexpected discovery--and learns that some things are not as simple as they seem....