1700 - 1800
1701
Captain Kidd’s Cat by Robert Lawson (Little, Brown, 1956)
The “true and dolorous” story of Captain William Kidd, his final voyage, his incarceration in Newgate Prison and his trial
and execution as told by Kidd’s cat. (J LAWSON)
1701
The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai by Erik Christian Haugaard (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
A fourteen year old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of
samurai to avenge Lord Asano’s death. (Y HAUGAAR)
1707
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner, 1954)
Remembering her mother’s words, an eight year old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in
the wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family west to Connecticut.
(J DALGLIE)
1716
Under the Black Flag by Erik Christian Haugaard (Roberts Rinehart, 1993)
Sailing from his home in Jamaica to England, fourteen year old William Bernard, the son of a plantation owner, is
kidnapped by the infamous pirate Blackbeard, held for ransom and forced to become a cabin boy aboard the pirate ship,
Queen Anne’s Revenge. (Y HAUGAAR)
1717
The Pirate’s Son by Geraldine McCaughrean (Scholastic, 1998)
Left penniless in 18th century England, fourteen year old Nathan Gull and his sister
Maud accompanies Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by
their encounter with Tamo’s dangerous past. (Y MCCAUGH)
1718
Blackbeard's Last Fight by Eric A. Kimmel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
In 1718, off the coast of North Carolina, a young cabin boy assists in the final capture and execution of Blackbeard the
pirate. (E KIMMEL)
1733
My Name is Not Angelica by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1989)
Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean Island of St. John as
she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. (Y ODELL)
1735
The Printer’s Apprentice by Stephen Krensky (Delacorte, 1995)
In New York City, a young printer’s apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter
Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government. (J KRENSKY)
1735
The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape from the Tower of London by Elvira Woodruff (Scholastic Press, 2003)
The eleven-year old son of the Revenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.
(J WOODRUF)
1738
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Atheneum, 2006)
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. (Y DRAPER)
1740
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Philomel, 1999)
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group
of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan. Sequels include: The Demon in the Teahouse, The Sword that Cut the
Burning Grass and A Samurai Never Fears Death. (Y HOOBLER)
1743
Catherine : The Great Journey by Kristiana Gregory (Scholastic, 2005)
A fictional diary of Princess Sophie, later named Catherine, from 1743 until 1745, when at age fifteen she is married to
her second cousin Peter, Grand Duke of Russia, who will one day be Emperor. Includes historical notes on her later life.
(J GREGORY)
1746
How the Hangman Lost His Heart by K.M. Grant (Walker, 2007)
When her Uncle Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in 1746 and his severed head is mounted on
a pike for public viewing, daring Alice tries to reclaim the head for a proper burial, finding an unlikely ally in the softhearted executioner, while incurring the wrath of the royal guard. (J GRANT)
1746
The Royal Dirk by John & Patricia Beatty (Morrow, 1966)
When young Alan Macrae meets Bonnie Prince Charlie and helps him escape the English armies, it is only the beginning
of his adventures. (J BEATTY)
1747
Ann’s Story, 1747 by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte, 2000)
Ann, a young girl in 18th century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to
study Latin or mathematics. (J NIXON)
1750
The Drummer Boy by Leon Garfield (Pantheon, 1969)
After the defeat of their regiment in France, a drummer boy and six other survivors struggle back to England and
uncertain destinies. (J GARFIEL)
1750
Flame-Colored Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986)
Twelve year old Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural
community near the southern coast of England in the 18th century. (J SUTCLIF)
1750
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson (Crowell, 1975)
A thirteen year old boy describes the poverty and discontent of 18th century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which
he lives. (J PATERSO)
1751-1829
In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story by Carolyn Meyer (Harcourt, 2008)
In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of
her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career,
despite her gender. (Y MEYER)
1753-1994
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1994)
A family’s 250 year history is followed from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his
descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina
that they call the Glory Field. (Y MYERS)
1754
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin, 1957)
When Miriam is captured in an Indian raid during the French and Indian War, she faces a harrowing march north, a life of
slavery and a decision that will affect the rest of her life. (J SPEARE)
1756
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (Dodd, Mead, 1941)
When his father leaves to search for marauding Indians, ten year old Edward protects his mother and sister with an old
Spanish gun. (J EDMONDS)
1756
Wormwood by G.P. Taylor. G.P. (Putnam's Sons, 2004)
In 1756, as a deadly comet hurtles toward London, Dr. Sabian Blake and his fourteen-year-old housemaid, Agetta,
struggle against dark forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in Blake's possession that would enable them to carry out
an evil plan in which Agetta unknowingly plays a pivotal role. (Y TAYLOR)
1758
A Stolen Life by Jane Louise Curry (McElderry, 1999)
In 1758, in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted
by “spiriters” and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter. (J CURRY)
1759
The Beaded Moccasins: the Story of Mary Campbell by Lynda Durrant (Clarion, 1998)
After being captured by a group of Delaware and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve
year old Mary Campbell must travel west with them to Ohio. (Y DURRANT)
1759
Caesar’s Story, 1759 by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte, 2000)
After having been a slave on Carter’s Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds
a way to plan his own future. (J NIXON)
1760
The Sea Robbers by Robert Kraske (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977)
When his older brother is mistaken for a doctor and kidnapped by pirates in colonial Massachusetts, fifteen year old Hugh
determines to rescue him. (J KRASKE)
1761
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt, 2005)
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 black
American poet.(Y RINALDI)
1763
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl by Patricia C. McKissack (Scholastic, 2004)
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events
of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the
ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives. (J MCKISSA)
1763
Mark of the Bear Claw by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos (River Road Publications, c2004)
Set in the Indian rebellions of 1763, this story tells of an angry Indian boy who joins the warriors who are headed to attack
the English while still learning to deal with family relationships and his mother's ideas about peace instead of war.
(J PANAGOP)
1763
Standing in the Light: the Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan by Mary Pope Osborne (Scholastic, 1998)
A Quaker girl’s diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture
by Lenape Indians in 1763. (J OSBORNE)
1763
The Time Thief by Linda Buckley-Archer (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while
The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London. (J BUCKLEY)
1765
King George’s Head was Made of Lead by F.N. Monjo (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974)
The statue of King George III, erected in Battery Park after the repeal of the Stamp Tax, tells his version of the events
leading to the American Revolution. (J MONJO)
1765
Lizzie and the Redcoat: Stirrings of Revolution in the American Colonies by Susan Martins Miller (Barbour, 2006)
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Murray risks her life to help a British soldier who was wounded by a mob in the days leading up
to the American Revolution. (J MILLER)
1765
Nancy’s Story, 1765 by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte, 2000)
Twelve year old Nancy worries about the effect of the British Stamp Act on her father’s silversmith business in
Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother. (J NIXON)
1768
Encounter at Easton by Avi (Pantheon, 1980)
The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of
people in a mid 18th century Pennsylvania town. A sequel to Night Journeys. (J AVI)
1768
Night Journeys by Avi (Pantheon, 1979)
Two indentured servants escape into Pennsylvania and receive help from an unexpected source. (J AVI)
1768
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin, 1983)
Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in 18th century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local
Indians teach him their skills. (J SPEARE)
1768-1771
Stowaway by Karen Hesse (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000)
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world
under Captain James Cook. (J HESSE)
1769
Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky (Scholastic, 2000)
In 1769, thirteen year old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal
chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. (J LASKY)
1770
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt Brace, 1993)
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. (Y RINALDI)
1770
A Williamsburg Household by Joan Anderson (Clarion, 1988)
Focuses on events in the household of a white family and its black slaves in Colonial Williamsburg in the 18th century.
(J ANDERSO)
1773
The Hornet’s Nest by Sally Watson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968)
A Scottish brother and sister leave the Isle of Skye in 1773 when their decided opinions and private war against the British
endanger their lives. They are sent to relations in Williamsburg, Virginia, where they again find themselves at the center
of conflicting loyalties and high feelings. (J WATSON)
1773
Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young by Esther Forbes (Houghton Mifflin, 1943)
A Bostonian silversmith’s apprentice becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the Revolutionary
War. (J FORBES)
1773
Touchmark by Mildred Lawrence (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975)
An orphaned girl living in pre-Revolutionary Boston longs to be apprenticed to a pewterer (J LAWRENC)
1774
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. 1 The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick,
2006)
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. (Y ANDERSO)
1774
Emma’s Journal: the Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss (Harcourt Brace, 1999)
From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies
for the American militia. (J MOSS)
1774
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War Patriot by Barry Denenberg (Scholastic, 1998)
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. (J DENENBE)
1774
Meet Felicity: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp (Pleasant, 1991)
In Williamsburg, nine year old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse which is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.
(Other books in the series include Felicity Learns a Lesson: a School Story, Happy Birthday, Felicity:a Springtime Story,
Felicity’s Surprise: a Christmas Story, Felicity Saves the Day: a Summer Story and Changes for Felicity: a Winter Story.
(J TRIPP)
1774
Nabby Adams’ Diary by Miriam Anne Bourne (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975)
A fictional diary of the second President’s daughter detailing the ten year period of her life from 1774-1784. (J BOURNE)
1774
Spy! by Anna Myers (Walker & Co., 2008)
Twelve-year-old Jonah becomes a pupil of Nathan Hale, who inspires him to question his beliefs about the impending
revolution, and two years later, Jonah makes a decision that leads to Nathan's execution. (J MYERS)
1775
Adventure on the Wilderness Road, 1775 by Laurie Lawlor (Pocket, 1999)
Recounts a family journey from Tennessee to Daniel Boone’s new settlement in Kentucky in 1775. (J LAWLOR)
1775
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. v.II The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T.
Anderson (Candlewick, 2008)
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in Britishoccupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his
counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on
the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force. Sequel to: The Pox Party (Y ANDERSO)
1775
Betrayal at Cross Creek by Kathleen Ernst (Pleasant Co. Publications, c2004)
Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must
find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War. (J ERNST)
1775
Early Thunder by Jean Fritz (Coward-McCann, 1967)
Traces a youth’s growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-Revolutionary Salem, a center of high
feeling between the British and colonists. (J FRITZ)
1775
Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution by Seymour Reit (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1990)
Frustrated with life under siege in George Washington’s army, nineteen year old Will Knox and his brother, Colonel
Henry Knox, undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the dead of winter. (J REIT)
1775
John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith (Hyperion Books for Children, 2006)
A humorous look at five of our country's founding fathers. (E SMITH)
1775
Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson (Little, Brown, 1953)
An account of episodes in the career of Paul Revere as revealed by his horse, Scheherazade. (J LAWSON)
1775
Oh Say, I Can't See by Jon Scieszka (Viking, 2005)
After arriving in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1776, time travelers Joe, Fred, and Samantha inspire General George
Washington, "the man on the one dollar bill," to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, that
will change the course of the Revolutionary War. (J SCIESZKA)
1775
Sam, the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley (Harper & Row, 1969)
Sam and his father fight as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington. (E-BEG BENCHLE)
1775
Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady (Crown, 1976)
During the Revolutionary War, a ten year old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for
the patriots. (J BRADY)
1775
Trail Through Danger by William O. Steele (Harcourt Brace, 1965)
Eleven year old Lafe is afraid the Cherokees will attack his hunting party or that the men in the party will find out that his
father is helping the Indians. (J STEELE)
1776
The Boston Coffee Party by Doreen Rappaport (Harper & Row, 1988)
During the Revolutionary War, two young sisters help a group of Boston women get coffee from a greedy merchant.
(E-BEG RAPPAPO)
1776
George Washington’s Socks by Elvira Woodruff (Scholastic, 1991)
In the midst of a backyard campout, ten year old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the
time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live American history firsthand and learn
the sober realities of war. (J WOODRUF)
1776
Katie’s Trunk by Ann Turner (Macmillan, 1992)
Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in
her mother’s wedding trunk when they invade her home. (E TURNER)
1776
Mary Geddy’s Day: a Day in Colonial Williamsburg by Kate Waters (Scholastic, 1999) Depicts what a day in the life
of a young girl might have been like in colonial times. (J WATERS)
1776
Night Raiders Along the Cape by John F. Waters (Silver Moon, 1997)
When British raids off the coast of New England become more frequent, young Asa must row through the night to warn
his friends on the Massachusetts coast of an impending attack. (J WATERS)
1776
Poor Richard in France by F. N. Monjo (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973)
Benjamin Franklin’s seven year old grandson recounts the events of his grandfather’s visit to France seeking aid for the
revolutionaries in America. (J MONJO)
1776
Samuel’s Choice by Richard J. Berleth (Whitman, 1990)
Samuel, a fourteen year old slave in Brooklyn in 1776, faces a difficult choice when the fighting between the British and
the colonists reaches his doorstep and only he can help the rebels. (J BERLETH)
1776
Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1980)
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from
the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness. (J ODELL)
1776
Traitor in Williamsburg: A Felicity Mystery by Elizabeth McDavid Jones (American Girl, 2008)
When someone anonymously calls her father and her friend's father traitors, Felicity sets out to find out who is making the
terrible accusations that could bring danger to both their families. (J JONES)
1776
When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia: What I Learned of Freedom, 1776 by Ann Turner (HarperCollins, 2003)
In Philadelphia in 1776, Ned meets Thomas Jefferson, who is staying in his mother's inn while debating the topic of
freedom in Congress and writing the Declaration of Independence. (E TURNER)
1777
The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac (Dial, 1998)
In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a memorable meeting. (J BRUCHAC)
1777
Hannah of Fairfield by Jean Van Leeuwen (Dial, 1999)
For almost nine year old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great
and small—from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial
soldiers in the American Revolutionary War. Sequels: Hannah’s Helping Hand & Hannah’s Winter of Hope
(J VAN-LEE)
1777
The Hollow Tree by Janet Lunn (Viking, 1997)
Phoebe, age 15, sets off to deliver a message to the British General at Ft. Ticonderoga. (Y LUNN)
1777
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolutionary War when one son joins the rebel forces
while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. (J COLLIER)
1777
Rebecca’s War by Ann Finlayson (Warne, 1972)
Left in charge of her brother and sister in occupied Philadelphia, fourteen year old Rebecca’s life is complicated further
when two British soldiers are billeted in her house. (J FINLAYS)
1777
The Scarlet Stockings Spy by Trinka Hakes Noble (Sleeping Bear Press, 2004)
In 1777 Philadelphia, young Maddy Rose spies for General Washington's army by using an unusual code to communicate
with her soldier brother. (J NOBLE)
1777
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart by Kristiana Gregory (Scholastic,
1996)
Eleven year old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General
Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. (J GREGORY)
1778
The 18 Penny Goose by Sally M. Walker (HarperCollins, 1998)
Eight year old Letty attempts to save her pet goose from marauding British soldiers in New Jersey during the
Revolutionary War. (E-BEG WALKER)
1778
The Fighting Ground by Avi (Lippincott, 1984)
Thirteen year old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within
himself. (J AVI)
1778
Finishing Becca: A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt Brace, 1994)
Fourteen year old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that
lead to General Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War. (Y RINALDI)
1778
Hope’s Crossing by Joan Elizabeth Goodman (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
During the Revolutionary War, thirteen year old Hope, seized by the band of Tories who attack her Connecticut home,
finds herself enslaved in a Tory household on Long Island and uses all her resources to escape and make her way home.
(J GOODMAN)
1778
Thomas by Bonnie Pryor (Morrow, 1998)
In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven year old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at
Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia. Sequel: Thomas in
Danger (J PRYOR)
1778
War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (Delacorte, 1983)
A free thirteen year old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of
being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears. (J COLLIER)
1778-1784
Redcoats and Petticoats by Katherine Kirkpatrick (Holiday House, 1999)
Members of a family in the village of Setauket on Long Island are displaced by the Redcoats and serve as spies for the
Revolutionary Army of George Washington. (J KIRKPAT)
1779
Hannah’s Helping Hands by Jean Van Leeuwen (Phyllis Fogelman, 1999)
In 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah and her family try to maintain a sense of normalcy as the Revolutionary War
rages around them, threatening to destroy their way of life. A sequel to Hannah of Fairfield. (J VAN-LEE)
1779
Summer of the Burning by Frances Riker Duncombe (Putnam, 1976)
After their house is burned down by the British and their mother dies in childbirth, a young girl finds herself responsible
for keeping her younger brothers and sisters together and somehow rebuilding their home. (J DUNCOMB)
1779
Thomas in Danger by Bonnie Pryor (Morrow, 1999)
Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start
a new life running an inn in Philadelphia, where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the
Iroquois. Sequel to Thomas. (J PRYOR)
1780
The Bloody Country by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (Four Winds, 1976)
In the mid 18th century, a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in a property conflict
between the two states. (J COLLIER)
1780
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt Brace, 1998)
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. (Y RINALDI)
1780
Hannah’s Winter of Hope by Jean Van Leeuwen (Phyllis Fogelman, 2000)
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. Sequel to Hannah’s Helping
Hands. (J VAN-LEE)
1780
The Keeping Room by Anna Myers (Walker, 1997)
Left in charge of the family by his father who joins the Revolutionary War effort, thirteen year old Joey undergoes such
great changes that he fears may be betraying his beloved parent. (J MYERS)
1780
Who Comes to King’s Mountain? by John and Patricia Beatty (Morrow, 1975)
Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided between Loyalist and rebel,
must decide for himself which side he will follow. (J BEATTY)
1781
Adam and the Golden Cock by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner, 1959)
When French troops under Rochambeau camp near a young boy’s town in Connecticut, the boy makes the acquaintance
of a young French soldier and is faced with a questionable relationship with a friend whose father is a Tory.
(J DALGLIE)
1781
Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry by Lynda Durrant (Clarion, 2000)
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. (J DURRANT)
1781
A Message for General Washington by Vivian Schurfranz (Silver Moon, 1998)
Twelve year old Hannah accepts the challenge of sneaking behind enemy lines to deliver a message to General
Washington which will result in the British surrender at Yorktown. (J SCHURFR)
1781
A Ride Into Morning: the Story of Tempe Wick by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991)
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War Camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General
Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. (Y RINALDI)
1783
Charlotte by Janet Lunn (Tundra, 1998)
Charlotte defies her father and says goodbye to her cousin’s family, loyalists who are moving to Nova Scotia. Disowned
by her father, she makes the journey with them. (J LUNN)
1784
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz (Coward-McCann, 1958)
It takes a visit from George Washington to make Ann Hamilton, a pioneer girl tending a vegetable garden in the hills of
Western Pennsylvania, feel the challenge of her own times. (J FRITZ)
1784
Wolf Hunt by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (Little, Brown, 1970)
Two hunters pursue a wolf that has begun raiding their flocks of sheep. (J EDMONDS)
1785
The Rogues by Jane Yolen (Philomel, 2007)
After his family is evicted from their Scottish farm, fifteen-year-old Roddy forms an unlikely friendship with a notorious
rogue who helps him outwit a tyrant landlord in order to find a family treasure and make his way to America.
(Y YOLEN)
1787
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Delacorte, 1981)
A fourteen year old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries
to find help in cashing the soldier’s notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution. (J COLLIER)
1787
River of the West: The Story of the Boston Men by Armstrong Sperry (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1952)
When young Robbie Haswell signed aboard the good ship Columbia he faced a ruthless captain as well as the dangers of
uncharted seas in a voyage from Boston to China. (J SPERRY)
1789
The Printer’s Devil: A Remarkable Story by Paul Bajoria (Little, Brown, 2007)
After printing the "Wanted" posters for some of London's most notorious inhabitants, a printer's boy is entangled, by a
genuine convict, in a series of mistaken identities and events leading back to the boy's own mysterious past.
(Y BAJORIA)
1789
The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner (Dial, 2008)
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-yearold Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
(Y GARDNER)
1790s
The Diamond of Drury Lane: A Cat Royal Adventure by Julia Golding (Roaring Brook, 2008)
Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly
hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent
Garden and the world of nobility. (Y GOLDING)
1790
The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron (Dutton, 1973)
Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in 19th century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the
time of Napoleon. (J CAMERON)
1790
Far Side of the Loch by Melissa Wiley (HarperCollins Publishers, 2000)
Continues the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of seven-year-old Martha Morse who would grow up to
become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Other titles in the series: Little House in the Highlands,
Down to the Bonny Glen, Beyond the Heather Hills. (J WILEY)
1791
Escape from Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Bryant by Gerald & Loretta Hausman (Orchard Books, 2003)
In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and
seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open
boat. (Y HAUSMAN)
1793
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen year old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and selfreliance when she is force to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. (Y ANDERSO)
1796
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully (Farrar Straus &
Giroux, 2007)
Oney Judge risks everything to escape a life of slavery in the household of George and Martha Washington and to make
her own way as a free black woman. (E MCCULLY)
1797
Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship by David Weitzman (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
A fictionalized account of the design and construction of the U.S.S. Constitution, told through the eyes of a boy whose
father is one of the ship’s carpenters. (J WEITZMA)
1798
The Boy Who Saved Cleveland: Based on a True Story by James Cross Giblin (Henry Holt and Company, 2006)
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his
neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone. (J GIBLIN)
1798
Witches’ Sabbath by Alexander Cordell (Viking, 1970)
During the Rebellion of 1798 a seventeen year old Irish boy must make sure that a rebel plot to capture an English hostage
succeeds. (J CORDELL)