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Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Discusses the contributions of various women who helped the American colonies break free of British rule, including Abigail Adams, Peggy Arnold, Esther Reed, Deborah Sampson, Mercy Warren, and Phillis Wheatley.
Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is sent to live with an eccentric uncle who leaves her largely to herself. She discovers that Uncle Enos' house is full of mysteries and ghosts, and Peggy becomes involved with the spirits of her own Colonial ancestors.
6) 1776
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...
Author
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies, only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, on hearing of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces, Octavian and his friends find themselves on board a British ship raiding the shores of Virginia as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
14) Long Knife
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
"A legend. A warrior. A hero. A classic American epic. Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Rogers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virginia to conquer all the territory between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He battled the British, forged friendships with French and Spanish settlers, and made treaties with many Indian tribes who revered the lanky, red-haired white man and called him Long...
15) Rebel spy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War--perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and the novels of Julie Berry. Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England and its thirteen colonies in 1776, until a shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity. The body of a young woman body floating in...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Benedict Arnold that highlights not only the traitorous actions that made him legendary, but also his heroic involvement in the American Revolution.
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