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The Revolution - 1775 to 1783

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Alsheimer, Jeanette E. (J)
The Trouble With Tea
It is the summer of 1773 and political tensions in Boston run high. While visiting her best friend, Anne, Patience Burgess, a minister's daughter from the provincial town of Plimouth, Massachusetts, is swept up into the whirlwind of the impending revolution.

Cuyler, Margery (J)
The Battlefield Ghost
When fourth grader John and his sister Lisa move into an old house in Princeton, New Jersey, they find it haunted by the ghost of a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War and try to reunite him with the ghost of his beloved horse.

Denenberg, Barry (J My Name Is)
The Journal Of William Thomas Emerson, A Revolutionary War Patriot
William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.

Durrant, Lynda (J)
Betsy Zane: The Rose Of Fort Henry
In 1781 twelve- year-old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution.

Gregory, Kristiana (J My America)
We Are Patriots
In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes.

Osborne, Mary Pope (J)
Revolutionary War On Wednesday
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.

Sterman, Betsy (J)
Saratoga Secret
In 1777, as General Burgoyne and his British troops invade the Upper Hudson River Valley, sixteen-year-old Amity must carry a secret message to the Continental army to give warning of an impending attack.

Van Leeuwen, Jean (J)
Hannah's Winter Of Hope
In 1780 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah worries about her brother Ben, a colonial soldier being held prisoner by the British, and joins her family in rebuilding their home and preparing for Ben's homecoming.

Waters, Kate (J)
Mary Geddy's Day: A Colonial Girl In Williamsburg
It is May 15, 1776, and even young Mary Geddy can sense the excitement in the air. Today, the colony of Virginia will cast their vote for independence from Britain. Mary tries to concentrate on her chores, but all she can think about is the outcome of the vote. If the vote is for independence, her best friend will move to England, and Father might go to war!

Wisler, G. Clifton (J)
King's Mountain
Fourteen-year-old Frank leaves his mountain home in South Carolina to help the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War.

Blackwood, Gary L. (YA)
The Year Of The Hangman
In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.

Lavender, William (YA)
Just Jane: A Daughter Of England
Caught In The Struggle Of The American Revolution Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.

Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda (YA)
The Hollow Tree
It is 1777, and Phoebe is thrown headlong into the turmoil of war when her beloved cousin is hanged as a British spy. When she finds his secret message to the British general, she decides to deliver it herself to Fort Ticonderoga. She has never been away from her small village, and knows nothing about survival in the wilderness, or dealing with warring Patriots and Tories. She's going to need help to survive . . . but whose?

Rinaldi, Ann (YA)
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution
In The South In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.