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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
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 44
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel about a pivotal period in the American Revolution relates the colonists' uphill battle in their quest for freedom, while General George Washington makes a fateful decision to cross the Delaware River and confront the enemy in New Jersey.
3) Redcoat
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 492 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1770 killing of civilians by British troops during the Boston Massacre and the tumultuous trial that follows ignites the flames of revolution that will culminate in America's epic struggle for independence.
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...
10) The beloved land
Author
Series
Song of acadia volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
She Yearned to Find a Home for Her Heart The tragic Acadian saga recounted in The Meeting Place, when the British drove the French from Nova Scotia, has followed two families over a score of years to the birth pangs of a new nation. The Song of Acadia has been one full of pathos but also of hope. Faith in God and family eventually have brought the Henri Robichauds to Louisiana, and finally, to a life of tranquility among the bayous. Back in Nova Scotia,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Toliver's secret
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
1976
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
166 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots.
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 Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
178 p.
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. 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.
16) Johnny Tremain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
17) Thomas
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
American Adventures. 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.
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
20) 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.