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Historical Fiction - North America: Revolutionary War (1763 - 1783)
After 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 LeGrand Cannon
Call Number: FIC CAN
ISBN: 0881502154
Publication Date: 1991-06-17
Nineteen-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 Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: FIC AND
ISBN: 1416961445
Publication Date: 2010-10-19
Curzon, 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 M. T. Anderson
Call Number: FIC AND
ISBN: 0763624020
Publication Date: 2006-09-12
Various 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 James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier
Call Number: FIC COL
ISBN: 0590426044
Publication Date: 1985-09-01
Anxious 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.
Slavery
The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: FIC AND
ISBN: 0763653764
Publication Date: 2011-01-25
Various 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 Mary E. Lyons
Call Number: FIC LYN
ISBN: 0684194465
Publication Date: 1992-10-31
A 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 Gary Paulsen
Call Number: FIC PAU
ISBN: 0385308388
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Twelve-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 Sharon M. Draper
Call Number: FIC DRA
ISBN: 9780689821813
Publication Date: 2006-01-03
Two 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 Mildred Pitts Walter
Call Number: FIC WAL
ISBN: 0590482823
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Aissa, 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.
Authors from this Time Period
Books
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi
Call Number: FIC RIN
ISBN: 0152008764
Publication Date: 1996-10-25
A 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 Ann Rinaldi
Call Number: FIC RIN
ISBN: 0152003436
Publication Date: 1993-11-30
Fourteen-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 James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier
Call Number: FIC COL
ISBN: 0439783607
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Recounts 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 Noel B. Gerson
Call Number: FIC GER
This 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.