Books
Chains by Call Number: FIC ANDISBN: 9781416905868Publication Date: 2010-01-05After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Look to the Mountain by Call Number: FIC CANISBN: 0881502154Publication Date: 1991-06-17Nineteen-year-old Whit Livingston and his new wife Melissa, barely sixteen, struggle to make a life for themselves in the North Country wilderness of New Hampshire in the mid-1700s.
Forge by Call Number: FIC ANDISBN: 1416961445Publication Date: 2010-10-19Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by Call Number: FIC ANDISBN: 0763624020Publication Date: 2006-09-12Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
The Winter Hero by Call Number: FIC COLISBN: 0590426044Publication Date: 1985-09-01Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he became involved in Shays' Rebellion, begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against what they felt were unfair taxes levied on them by the Boston government.
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The Pox Party by Call Number: FIC ANDISBN: 0763653764Publication Date: 2011-01-25Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Letters from a Slave Girl by Call Number: FIC LYNISBN: 0684194465Publication Date: 1992-10-31A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
Nightjohn by Call Number: FIC PAUISBN: 0385308388Publication Date: 1993-01-01Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Copper Sun by Call Number: FIC DRAISBN: 9780689821813Publication Date: 2006-01-03Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Second Daughter by Call Number: FIC WALISBN: 0590482823Publication Date: 1996-02-01Aissa, the teen-age fictional sister of Elizabeth Freeman, struggles against a system which declares that she is property and that she is to remain silent.
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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Call Number: FIC RINISBN: 0152008764Publication Date: 1996-10-25A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.
The Fifth of March by Call Number: FIC RINISBN: 0152003436Publication Date: 1993-11-30Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
My Brother Sam Is Dead by Call Number: FIC COLISBN: 0439783607Publication Date: 2005-06-01Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.- I'll Storm Hell by Call Number: FIC GERThis was the spirit that typified one of the most courageous, impetuous officers of the Revolutionary War -- and also earned him a notable nickname: "Mad Anthony" Wayne, Fourth Pennsylvania Militia.
