Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
For young Samuel Russell, the summer of 1777 is a time of fear. The British Army is approaching, and the Indians in the area seem ready to attack. To Stands Straight, a young Abenaki Indian scouting for King George, Americans are dangerous enemies who threaten his family and home. When Stands Straight's party enters the Quaker Meetinghouse where Samuel worships, the two boys share an encounter that neither will ever forget. Told in alternating viewpoints, The Arrow over the Door is based on a tr...
Hostage on the Nighthawk (Trailblazer Books, #32)
by Neta Jackson and Dave Jackson
A yellow fever outbreak causes Theodoric Wakefield and his family to change boats. When they discover the new one is a pirate ship, he must slip away and enlist his uncle William Penn to save everyone. Ages 8-12.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation (Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2)
by M. T. Anderson
In Colonial America there were no big grocery stores. No microwaves to serve up dinner piping hot. And no dishwashers for cleaning up. So what chores did colonial children do? From quilting bees and maple sugaring in winter, to tilling the earth in spring, to harvesting an autumn feast, storyteller and historian Cheryl Harness tells a month-by-month story of a brand-new nation and the children in every city and farm whose hard work built America. Readers of...
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.
Saving Washington Film Rights Optioned by Producer of HBO's Big Little Lies The lost story of “America’s 400 Spartans”—an army of unexpected heroes who changed the course of history. On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of Am...
Killing in Plymouth Colony
by Carol Otis Hurst and Rebecca Otis
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived Graphic Novel #8) (I Survived Graphix)
by Lauren Tarshis
Mercy Clifton (Crimson Cross, #2)
by Peter Marshall, David Manuel, and Sheldon Maxwell
ILL WIND TO AMERICA! America is the land of ten-year-old Hannah's dreams. For her and her sister, twelve-year-old Abigail, just leaving Chelmsford for London with her father and their stepmother is an adventure. But the real excitement begins when they board the Arbella and set sail for Massachusetts Bay. Their voyage in the dark, smelly hold is unlike anything Hannah could have imagined. Then there's Zach, the indentured servant. Not even disapproving Abigail can keep Hannah away from her new f...
Davy Crockett (Texas Heroes, #1) (Frontier Legends)
by Robert E Hollmann
Back in Time with Benjamin Franklin (Qwerty Stevens Adventures (Hardcover))
by Dan Gutman
I Escaped The Gold Rush Fever (I Escaped, #11)
by Scott Peters and S D Brown
