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42) The beloved land
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
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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Draws on diaries, letters, and other sources to flesh out six disparate lives affected by the Revolutionary War, including an African man who freed himself and his family from slavery, a woman who abandoned her abusive husband, and an often-criticized George Washington.
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Language
English
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Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate...
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Language
English
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"Chronicling General Lafayette's years in Washington's army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the Revolutionary War. Riding shotgun with Lafayette, Vowell swerves from the high-minded debates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, from bloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, bumping into John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette and...
47) Samuel Adams
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the Massachusetts radical whose belief in forceful protest against injustice made him one of the leaders of the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
" A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!"--
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.
52) 1776
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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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
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Profiles sixty men and women who were key players on the British or American side of the American Revolution, from John Adams, who became the second president, to Eliza Wilkinson, who wrote of the day British soldiers looted her South Carolina home.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Details events that led to the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War, looks at major battles including the Battle of Yorktown, and reviews the formation of a United States government.
59) Boston Tea Party
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination. Aminata is a character who will stir listeners, from her kidnapping...
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