Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/1900
ISBN-13: 9780684124384
ISBN-10: 0684124386

When French troops under Rochambeau camp near a young boy's town in Connecticut, the boy makes the acquaintance of a young French soldier and is faced with a questionable relationship with a friend whose father is a Tory.

Publisher: Pleasant Co. Publications
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9781584858799
ISBN-10: 1584858796

In the deep forests of North Carolina's Cape Fear River Valley, the brewing Revolution feels very far away to Elspeth and her fellow Scottish immigrant neighbors, but when Elspeth's grandfather and cousins finally march off to fight on the British side, Elspeth is left alone to protect her grandmother. Simultaneous.

Publisher: Morrow Junior Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/1993
ISBN-13: 9780606057806
ISBN-10: 0606057803

Following the Revolution, an eleven-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.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/21/2008
ISBN-13: 9781416905851
ISBN-10: 1416905855

When her former owner breaks his promise to set her free and ends up sending her to live with a cruel loyalist family at the start of the Revolutionary War, Isabel is heartbroken and so becomes determined to do whatever is necessary to win her freedom, including spying on her family to help the rebels win the war. 50,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1987
ISBN-13: 9780064401852
ISBN-10: 0064401855

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

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/19/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416961444
ISBN-10: 1416961445

A sequel to Chains finds runaway slave Curzon joining the Patriot Army during the harsh winter at Valley Forge, a formidable service that is compromised by his fear of discovery and Isabel's unwilling presence. By the National Book Award finalist author of Speak. 100,000 first printing.

Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1977
ISBN-13: 9780688417994
ISBN-10: 068841799X

Relates the experiences of the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution.

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/1969
ISBN-13: 9780684134529
ISBN-10: 0684134527

A fictional account of the life of a colonial girl, who, anxious to escape the narrow prescribed life of a female, disguises herself and serves with the Continental Army for three years during the Revolution.

Publisher: Four Winds Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1974
ISBN-13: 9780027229806
ISBN-10: 0027229807

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.

Publisher: F. Warne
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1971
ISBN-13: 9780723260899
ISBN-10: 0723260893

A thirteen-year-old joins the British Army and is sent to Boston where he is exposed to the growing resentment toward the crown and witnesses other forces that are part of the Revolutionary fervor.

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780836822809
ISBN-10: 0836822803

In 1781, twelve-year-old Molly Randall, living with her family in Yorktown, Virginia, finds her courage tested when she must ride a powerful Arabian horse to get help for a neighbor about to be executed for treason by the British.

Publisher: Silver Moon Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9781881889540
ISBN-10: 1881889548

In British-occupied Boston in 1776, eleven-year-old Emily Parker is determined to find out if a family friend is a traitor to the American patriots.

Publisher: Dell Pub. Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9781439565285
ISBN-10: 1439565287

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.

Publisher: HyperionBooks for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780786822416
ISBN-10: 0786822414

Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

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Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/26/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375962042
ISBN-10: 0375962042

Accepting a proposal of marriage to a man she barely knows in order to escape her unpromising life in Philadelphia, Jane embarks on a sea voyage to mid-19th-century Washington Territory, a journey that poses unexpected challenges. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Penny from Heaven. Simultaneous.

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Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780803715264
ISBN-10: 0803715269

A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.

Publisher: Henry Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/12/2009
ISBN-13: 9780805088410
ISBN-10: 0805088415

Curious about the grasshoppers in her backyard in rural Texas, 11-year-old Calpurnia turns to her grandfather and avid naturalist for information and ends up with a newfound respect for the natural world, the way it operates, and the similarities it shares with her own life as the only daughter in a family with six brothers, in this coming-of-age tale set in 1899.

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Publisher: Pocket Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9780671529994
ISBN-10: 0671529994

Saved during a deadly ice storm by Geronimo, young Will Burke learns how to survive and fight back against his tormenters, and he realizes how to return the favor during an adventure at the St. Louis World's Fair. Original.

Publisher: Puffin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780142400586
ISBN-10: 0142400580

In a small town in turn-of-the-century Utah, a precocious ten-year-old boy hatches scheme after scheme to gain prestige and money. Reissue.

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780385730662
ISBN-10: 0385730667

When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.

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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/11/2005
ISBN-13: 9780385908900
ISBN-10: 0385908903

After being sent alone on ship by his mother from Italy to New York City to start a new life in 1892, young Dom arrives with only a pair of shoes to his name and must find a way to survive in the new world with the rest of the homeless children in Manhattan's Five Points in order to become the success his mother was certain he would be.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9781442015142
ISBN-10: 1442015144

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1991
ISBN-13: 9780525673385
ISBN-10: 0525673385

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780060278229
ISBN-10: 0060278226

As the only girl born on the Nasel River, May Amelia acts very much like a tomboy, but when her mother gets pregnant, May Amelia hopes that the baby turns out to be a girl so that she can finally have a companion that is just like her.

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Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/23/1999
ISBN-13: 9780395838976
ISBN-10: 0395838975

Convinced that his father, a preacher, loves his simple-minded brother better than him, Robbie attempts to break the constraints of Christianity by becoming an "apeist" and living life to the fullest, but he soon learns that his actions have hurt others and he must find some way to repair the damage he has done, in a powerful novel set in 1899 Vermont.

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Publisher: Sandpiper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9780547406329
ISBN-10: 0547406320

A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

Publisher: Macmillan
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1990
ISBN-13: 9780027264579
ISBN-10: 0027264572

Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.