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Author
Series
Outlander novel volume 8
Language
English
Description
"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743...Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin,s Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
593 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story of a woman struggling to find herself during the tumultuous years preceding the American Revolution. The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to...
Author
Series
Magic Tree House volume 22
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Magic tree house series, #22. 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.
Author
Series
Outlander volume 9
Language
English
Description
Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scottish Highlander Jamie Fraser, made aware by his time-traveling wife Claire of the outcome of the impending American Revolution, and living under the shadow of a newspaper clipping from the future that reports the deaths of him and his family, faces a dilemma when the colonial governor of North Carolina asks him to secure the region for King and Crown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audio Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 hr., 44 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the winter of 1779 until 1781, Abigail Stewart and her family follow the path of her father's Continental Army unit after their Valley Forge home burns down, enduring harsh winters and scarce food, and narrowly escaping danger time and again.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids.
12) The winter of red snow: the diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777-1778
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
173 p.: 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
13) Chains
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Sweetie
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"George Washington's foxhound Sweetlips narrates the story of her master's transformation from farmer to Father of our Country"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the American Revolution, Patrick and Beth travel back in time to deliver a letter to Paul Revere.
19) Midnight rider
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
404 p. : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
188 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.