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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A village girl seeking friendship is swept up into the Salem Witch Trials in award-winning author Ann Rinaldi's young adult novel, A Break with Clarity.
Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the imprisonment and execution of countless...
Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the imprisonment and execution of countless...
8) My Vicksburg
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
As her family hides in a cave during a Civil War battle, a girl faces a difficult choice in this “thoroughly researched and enjoyable historical novel” (Booklist).
Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day—when the Union army takes their meals at eight...
Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day—when the Union army takes their meals at eight...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Jem struggles to maintain the status quo at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence.
There are signs of rebellion in the Emerson household several years before the actual American Revolution hits in 1776! Brought up in a relatively liberal household, Jemima Emerson is quite a challenge for her tutor, John Reid, who is known as a Tory with strong ties to England. How could Jem's parents be...
There are signs of rebellion in the Emerson household several years before the actual American Revolution hits in 1776! Brought up in a relatively liberal household, Jemima Emerson is quite a challenge for her tutor, John Reid, who is known as a Tory with strong ties to England. How could Jem's parents be...
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Series
Language
English
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"Carefully researched and lovingly written, Rinaldi's latest presents a girl indentured to John and Abigail Adams during the tense period surrounding the 1770 Massacre. . . . Fortuitously timed, a novel that illuminates a moment from our past that has strong parallels to recent events. Bibliography."—Kirkus Reviews
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
This novel of a girl and her family in Gettysburg as the infamous Civil War battle begins “brings a piece of history to life” (School Library Journal).
As Confederate and Union soldiers take over their town, the residents of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, can do little more than hunker down in their homes while cannon and gunfire explode around them. But the battles are not only fought between soldiers....
As Confederate and Union soldiers take over their town, the residents of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, can do little more than hunker down in their homes while cannon and gunfire explode around them. But the battles are not only fought between soldiers....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Cornelia Greene is fed up with gossip about her mother. Caty Littlefield Greene was once a beautiful young bride who lifted the troops' spirits at Valley Forge, but Cornelia knows that rumors of Caty's past indiscretions hurt Nathanael Greene, Cornelia's adored father. Yet Caty claims that she's just a flirt, and that flirting is a female necessity—a woman's only means of power.
Cornelia's concern with her mother's reputation abruptly
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
A surprising Revolutionary War tale of a family beset by a mother’s mental illness: “Often gripping…the portrayal of Patrick Henry is unusually complex.”—Publishers Weekly
Patrick Henry, the famous statesman of the American Revolution, has a secret: He keeps his wife in the cellar. It’s the only alternative to an asylum, for, slowly losing her mind, Sarah Henry has become a serious...
Patrick Henry, the famous statesman of the American Revolution, has a secret: He keeps his wife in the cellar. It’s the only alternative to an asylum, for, slowly losing her mind, Sarah Henry has become a serious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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Description
The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father’s secret—and her own: “A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent.”—VOYA
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new...
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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Description
An independent-minded young maid tells the story of social-climber Peggy Shippen and how she influenced Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the Patriot forces. Revolutionary Philadelphia is brought to life as Becca seeks to find her "missing pieces" while exploring the complicated issues of the war between the impoverished independence men and the decadent British Tories. "This tale of treachery comes alive under [Rinaldi's] pen."—Kirkus Reviews
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A teenage orphan is caught up in President Lincoln’s assassination—and another macabre plot—in this “fast-paced and dramatic” historical novel (Publishers Weekly).
Emily’s mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn’t know about. But after Emily is orphaned—as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the...
Emily’s mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn’t know about. But after Emily is orphaned—as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Edition
1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
19) A stitch in time
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory.
20) Sarah's ground
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert. Includes historical notes.