1500 – 1700
1500
The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
Working as an artist’s apprentice in Renaissance Florence, thirteen year old Arduino makes a discovery that may cost him
the chance to become a painter. (J MOLINA)
1500
The Examination by Malcolm Bosse (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994)
Fifteen year old Hong and his older brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates and jealous rivals on their journey through
15th century China as Chen pursues his calling as a scholar, and Hong becomes involved in a secret society known as the
White Lotus. (Y BOSSE)
1500
Redemption by Julie Chibbaro (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004)
Chronicles the arduous journey of a twelve-year-old English girl and her mother as they flee with other religious
protesters to the New World in the early 1500's, and the heartbreak and hope they find when they arrive. (Y CHIBBAR)
1506
The Sprig of Broom by Barbara Willard (Dutton, 1971)
In 16th century England, a boy of humble birth searches for his identity while Plantagenets plot to reclaim the throne from
the Tudors. (J WILLARD)
1510
The Diving Bell by Todd Strasser (Scholastic, 1992)
During the Spanish colonization of Mexico, a young girl invents a diving bell to save her brother and her people.
(J STRASSE)
1519-1540
The Amethyst Ring by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1983)
Spanish seminarian Julian Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcan and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of
the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortes and Pizarro. (Y ODELL)
1519-1540
The Feathered Serpent by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
A young Spanish seminarian who the Mayas believe is their powerful god, Kukulcan, witnesses the coming of Cortes and
the capture of the magnificent Aztec city, Tenochtitlan. Sequel to The Captive (Y ODELL)
1520
A Cold Wind Blowing by Barbara Willard (Dutton, 1972)
Henry VIII’s quarrel with the Pope seems remote from a young Englishman’s life until his uncle finds himself the
guardian to a mysterious silent girl who seems to remember nothing. (J WILLARD)
1520
Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer (Harcourt, 2002)
In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one
day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet. (Y MEYER)
1522
White Hare’s Horses by Penina Keen Spinka (Atheneum, 1991)
In 16th century California, a young Chumash, White Hare, must find the courage to save her people from Aztec invaders
with their frightening horses. (J SPINKA)
1524
The Hawk that Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1975)
Amid political turmoil and threats of plague, young Tom Barton accepts the risks of helping William Tyndale publish and
smuggle into England the Bible he has translated into English. (Y ODELL)
1526
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer (Harcourt Brace, 1999)
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid 16th century, tells the story of her troubled
childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. (Y MEYER)
1533
Duchessina, a Novel of Catherine de Medici by Carolyn Meyer (Harcourt, 2007)
While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when
she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to
become king. (Y MEYER)
1540
The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)
Seven explorers set out from the summer camp of Coronado’s army to find the golden cities of Cibola. (J ODELL)
1541
Conquista! by Clyde Robert Bulla (Crowell, 1978)
At the time of Coronado’s exploration for a fabled city of gold, a young Indian boy encounters his first horse. (J BULLA)
1542
The Redheaded Princess: A Novel by Ann Rinaldi (HarperCollins, 2008)
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her
father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself
next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558. (J RINALDI)
1542-1587
The Queen’s Own Fool by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris (Philomel, 2000)
When twelve year old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the
political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland. (Y YOLEN)
1544
Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor by Kathryn Lasky (Scholastic, 1999)
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven year old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and
birthdays, relives her mother’s execution and agonizes over her father’s death. (J LASKY)
1545
Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale by Cheryl Whitesel (Clarion Books, 2004)
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where he remains disloyal
until he discovers samurai have burned his former village. (Y WHITESEL)
1547- 1553
Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer (Harcourt, 2001)
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and
dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England
eleven years later. (Y MEYER)
1548
The Dove and the Rose by Ethel Herr (Bethany House, 1996)
Pieter-Lucas, a gifted artist, and Aletta, the daughter of a bookseller, vow to love each other in spite of the religious and
political struggles of the Reformation which threaten to separate them. (Y HERR)
1550
The Gold of Dreams by Jose Maria Merino; translated by Helen Lane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991)
Fifteen year old Miguel, the son of a conquistador, embarks on a dangerous search for a temple of gold in the uncharted
territories of Mexico. Companion to Beyond the Ancient Cities. (Y MERINO)
1550
Shylock's Daughter by Mirjam Pressler (P. Fogelman Books, 2001)
Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteencentury Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family.
Inspired by Shakespeare's “The Merchant of Venice”. (Y PRESSLE)
1553
Curse of a Winter Moon by Mary Casanova (Hyperion Books For Children, 2000)
In sixteenth-century France, ruled by a Church that overtaxes peasants and burns heretics, Marius must postpone his
apprenticeship to care for his six-year-old brother, whose birth took their mother's life, and who the villagers, backed by
the Church, believe will become a "loup garou" -- a werewolf. (J CASANOV)
1557
The Iron Lily by Barbara Willard (Dutton, 1973)
Orphaned in 1557 by the plague and disowned by her “brother’s” widow who claims she is not true kin to the family,
fifteen year old Lilias begins a life-long attempt to identify her true parentage. (J WILLARD)
1558
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Puffin, 1972)
While imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground
labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic. (Y POPE)
1560
Den of the White Fox by Lensey Namioka (Harcourt Brace, 1997)
In medieval Japan, two out of work samurai warriors must use their fighting skills when they join a group of local boys,
led by the mysterious White Fox, in resistance to a cruel occupying force. (Y NAMIOKA)
1560
I am Rembrandt’s Daughter by Lynn Cullen (Bloomsbury, 2007)
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by
plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a
wealthy suitor. (Y CULLEN)
1560
Island of Ogres by Lensey Namioka (Harper & Row, 1989)
An unemployed samurai reluctantly helps solve a mystery and prevents the overthrow of a young ruler on an island in
medieval Japan. (Y NAMIOKA)
1567
You Never Knew Her As I Did! by Mollie Hunter (Harper & Row, 1981)
Will Douglas, a seventeen year old page, attempts to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from her island prison. (J HUNTER)
1573
A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)
Horrified at having witnessed her father’s murder, and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen Elizabeth I, eleven year
old Alice Tuckfield hides in the Yorkshire cathedral disguising herself as one of the choirboys. (J HILGART)
1589
The Burning Time by Carol Matas (Delacorte, 1994)
After her father’s sudden death, fifteen year old Rose Rives finds that 16th century France is a dangerous place for women
when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches. (Y MATAS)
1590
The 13th Member by Mollie Hunter (Harper & Row, 1971)
The discovery by a boy servant in 16th century Scotland that a kitchen maid is a witch leads to the disclosure of a plot to
murder King James I. (J HUNTER)
1592
Isabel: Taking Wing by Annie Dalton (Pleasant Company, 2002)
In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her
aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her. (J DALTON)
1592
The Secret of the Rose by Sarah L. Thomson (Greenwillow Books, 2006)
When her father is imprisoned in 1592 England for being Catholic, fourteen-year-old Rosalind disguises herself as a boy
and finds an ultimately dangerous job as servant to playwright Christopher Marlowe. (Y THOMSON)
1595
Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba by Patricia McKissack (Scholastic, 2000)
Presents the diary of thirteen year old Nzingha, a West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom
one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders. (J MCKISSA)
1596
Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare by Michael J. Ortiz (HarperCollins, 2006)
Restricted by the authorities from practicing Catholicism and forbidden by her parents from seeing a Puritan boy,
Susanna, the daughter of William Shakespeare, vents her anger by writing in a journal and composing a play. (J ORTIZ)
1597
The Playmaker by J.B. Cheaney (Knopf, 2000)
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen year old Richard uncovers a mystery
involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth. (Y CHEANEY)
1600s
The Walls of Cartagena by Julia Durango (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator
for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping
an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling. (J DURANGO)
1600
The Black Canary by Jane Louise Curry (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2005)
As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenthcentury London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is
biracial might serve him well. (J CURRY)
1600
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood (Dutton, 1998)
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare’s acting troupe in order to steal the script of
“Hamlet”, but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty. (J BLACKWO)
1600
The True Prince by J.B. Cheaney (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the
members of Queen Elizabeth's court. (Y CHEANEY)
1601
The Leopard Dagger by Constance Fecher (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)
In London, a thirteen year old boy, abandoned as a baby, has a chance to help the struggling Globe Theater and look for
clues to his identity. (J FECHER)
1602
Shakespeare’s Scribe by Gary Blackwood (Dutton, 2000)
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen year old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with
Shakespeare’s troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way. Sequel to The Shakespeare Stealer.
(J BLACKWO)
1602
Shakespeare's Spy by Gary Blackwood (Dutton Children's Books, 2003)
The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes
infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to
help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life. (J BLACKWOOD)
1607
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone (Viking, 2006)
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in
the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. (J CARBONE)
1609
Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 by Patricia Hermes (Scholastic, 2000)
Nine year old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger
and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home. (J HERMES)
1609
The Serpent Never Sleeps: a Novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas by Scott O’Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1987)
In the early 17th century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New
World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas. (Y ODELL)
1609-1610
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla (Crowell, 1981)
Left on their own in 17th century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and
make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. (J BULLA)
1610
The Untold Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard (Houghton Mifflin, 1971)
In 17th century Denmark a young orphan seeks his fortune during the wars with Sweden. (J HAUGAAR)
1611
Season of Promise by Patricia Hermes (Scholastic, 2002)
In 1611, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins
the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage. (J HERMES)
1613
Burning Issy by Melvin Burgess (Simon & Schuster, 1994)
In 17th century England, twelve year old Issy is accused of being a witch and struggles with the belief that she actually
does have strange powers. (J BURGESS)
1614
Stink Alley by Jamie Gilson. (HarperCollins, 2002)
Living in Holland in 1614 with the harsh Puritan leader, William Brewster, and working for the family of a mischievous
Dutch boy named Rembrandt, a spirited twelve-year-old orphan girl struggles to do what is right. (J GILSON)
1619
The House on Stink Alley: a Story about the Pilgrims in Holland by F. N. Monjo (Holt, 1977)
Young Love Brewster describes the experiences of his family and other Pilgrims living in Leyden in the years before the
Mayflower sailed for the New World. (J MONJO)
1620
Constance: a Story of Early Plymouth by Patricia Clapp (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1968)
Fourteen year old Constance does not share her father’s enthusiasm for their new life in Plymouth, but in keeping a
journal finds an appreciation for the New World. (J CLAPP)
1620
The Dangerous Voyage by Gilbert Morris (Bethany, 1995)
Trapped in the year 1620 after a trip in an experimental time machine, fourteen year old twins Danny and Dixie set sail for
the New World on the Mayflower and discover some surprising things about the faith and life of the pilgrims.
(J MORRIS)
1620
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim Boy, Plimoth Plantation, 1620 by Ann Rinaldi (Scholastic, 2000)
A fourteen year old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of
Plimoth Plantation in 1620 and 1621. (J RINALDI)
1620
A Journey to the New World: the Diary of Remember Patience Whipple by Kathryn Lasky (Scholastic, 1996)
Twelve year old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their
first year in the New World. (J LASKY)
1620
On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice and a Passenger Girl by Kate Waters (Scholastic, 1996)
A twelve year old apprentice and a seven year old passenger experience the first voyage of the Mayflower. (J WATERS)
1620
Sarah's New World: The Mayflower Adventure by Colleen L. Reece (Barbour Pub., 2004)
Sarah leaves her home in Holland to travel on the Mayflower. (J REECE)
1620
This New Land by G. Clifton Wisler (Walker, 1987)
Ten year old Richard Woodley describes his trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower and tells about the first year
spent by the Pilgrims at Plymouth. (J WISLER)
1620
Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness (Bradbury, 1992)
Mary, Remember, and Bartholomew are among the pilgrims who survive the harsh early years in America and see New
Plymouth grow into a prosperous colony. (J HARNESS)
1621
Guests by Michael Dorris (Hyperion, 1994)
Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during
the time of the first Thanksgiving. (J DORRIS)
1621
Rebekah in Danger: Peril at Plymouth Colony by Colleen L. Reece (Barbour Pub, 2004)
In 1621, newly arrived at Plymouth Colony, eleven-year-old Rebekah and her family find themselves facing a difficult
winter with little food, inadequate shelter, sickness, and little hope for the future until help arrives with an unexpected
visitor. (J REECE)
1625
A Boy and His Bear by Harriet Graham (McElderry, 1996)
Dickon rescues his bear cub friend from certain death at the hand of bear catchers in Elizabethan England. (J GRAHAM)
1627
Jahanara, Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky (Scholastic, 2002)
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about
political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life
and on the Mogul Empire. (J LASKY)
1628
Hold My Hand & Run by Margaret McAllister (Dutton Children's Books, 2000, c1999)
When the beatings she receives from her cruel aunt get worse, Kazy decides to run away from her home in seventeenthcentury England and take her little sister Beth with her. (Y MCCALLIS)
1630
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes (Little, Brown, 1934)
A young man dares not return to England, in the time of King Charles and Oliver Cromwell, after his ship is taken over by
pirates and he becomes a member of their crew. (J HAWES)
1630
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Bell, 1965)
Born a slave, Juan mixes colors and prepares canvases for the artist Velasquez and becomes his assistant, companion and
lifelong friend. (J TREVINO)
1630
Voyage to a Free Land, 1630 by Laurie Lawlor (Pocket, 1999)
This novel is based on the true story of the ship the Arbella, which left England in 1630 as part of one of the largest
migrations of Puritans seeking religious freedom in the New World. (J LAWLOR)
1633
The Primrose Way by Jackie French Koller (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992)
Sixteen year old Rebeka joins her missionary father in the New World in the 1630’s. She befriends the Pawtucket chief’s
niece and begins to wonder why her friend’s people need the Puritan’s idea of salvation and civilization. (Y KOLLER)
1635
Tattered Sails by Verla Kay (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001)
Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the journey of a family from London to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in
1635. (E KAY)
1636
The House of Windjammer by V.A. Richardson (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2003)
In the fall of 1636, Adam, fourteen-year-old heir to the House of Windjammer, must find a way to keep his family afloat
after his father dies and tulip fever sweeps Amsterdam. (Y RICHARD)
1639
Kristina, the Girl King: [Sweden, 1638] by Carolyn Meyer (Scholastic, 2003)
A novel in diary form about Kristina, the young queen of Sweden. (J MEYER)
1640s
Harrow and Harvest by Barbara Willard (Dutton, 1974)
The Medley family and their ancestral home, Mantlemass, are drawn into the conflict of the English Civil War.
(J WILLARD)
1641
A Messenger for Parliament by Erik Christian Haugaard (Houghton Mifflin, 1976)
A young boy becomes involved in the early events of the English Civil War that unseated Charles I bringing Cromwell
and the Puritans to power. (J HAUGAAR)
1646
Kate Crackernuts by K.M. Briggs (Greenwillow, 1979)
A high-spirited girl tries to shield her innocent stepsister from a witch’s wrath during the turbulence caused by the 17th
century wars between the Scots and the English. (J BRIGGS)
1647
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town by Arnold Lobel (Harper and Row, 1971)
Finding the appearance of New Amsterdam a total disgrace, Peter Stuyvesant begins issuing no-nonsense proclamations
to rectify the situation. (E LOBEL)
1650
Newes from the Dead: Being a True Story of Anne Green, Hanged for Infanticide at Oxford Assizes
in 1650, Restored to the World and Died Again 1665 by Mary Hooper (Roaring Brook, 2008)
While Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne
Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact,
stillborn. (Y HOOPER)
1653-54
Weetamoo, Heart of the Pocassets by Patricia Clark Smith (Scholastic, 2003)
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how
her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coatmen" of the nearby Plymouth Colony. (J SMITH)
1654
One Foot Ashore by Jacqueline Dembar Greene (Walker, 1994)
Arriving alone and destitute in Amsterdam, sixteen year old Maria Ben Lazar finds refuge and friendship in the household
of the artist Rembrandt and continues to pursue her desperate search for her parents and younger sister. Sequel to Out of
Many Waters. (J GREENE)
1654
Out of Many Waters by Jacqueline Dembar Greene (Walker, 1988)
Kidnapped from their parents during the Portuguese Inquisition and sent to work as slaves at a monastery in Brazil, two
Jewish sisters attempt to make their way back to Europe to find their parents, but instead become part of a group founding
the first Jewish settlement in the United States. (J GREENE)
1658
The Gypsy Crown by Kate Forsyth (Hyperion, 2008)
Emilia Finch and her cousin Luka are gypsies. To the repressive Puritanical government of 17th century England, gypsies
are thieving, fortune-telling vagrants who are most likely allies of the devil. While the Finches have managed to steer
clear of trouble, it finds them while they are performing in Kingston square one ill-fated market day. A series of terrible
events lands the family in jail, charged with murder. Only Emilia and Luka manage to escape, promising to bring back
help and free them. (Y FORSYTH)
1659
Witch Child by Celia Rees (Candlewick Press, 2001)
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her
experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. (Y REES)
1662
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull (Candlewick Press, 2004)
In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and
seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds. Sequel: Forged in the Fire
(Y TURNBUL)
1664
Secret Along the St. Mary's by Virginia B. Troeger (Silver Moon Press, 2003)
In addition to having to cope with major changes in her family, twelve-year-old Susannah, who lives in seventeenthcentury Maryland, struggles with her promise to keep the secret of a runaway indentured servant. (J TROEGER)
1665
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper (Distributed by Holtzbrinck Pub., 2003)
In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is
unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the
disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape. Sequel: Petals in the Ashes
(J HOOPER)
1665
Nell of Branford Hall by William Wise (Dial, 1999)
Nell Bullen recounts the horror of the Great London Plague of 1665 and how the “Circle of Death” was drawn around her
village to keep the disease from spreading to neighboring towns. (J WISE)
1666
Petals in the Ashes by Mary Hooper (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2004)
Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe,
Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire of 1666. Sequel to: At the Sign of the
Sugared Plum (J HOOPER)
1677
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000)
In 17th century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of
becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father’s book store. Sequel: A True and Faithful Narrative
(J STURTEV)
1680
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006)
In London in the 1680s, Meg--now sixteen years old--tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men who court
her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions. (J STURTEV)
1681
Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman (Harper & Row, 1990)
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen year old William, a Narraganset captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and
contented life as a printer’s apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his past. (Y FLEISCH)
1683
Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
Relates how Benjamin Banneker’s grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late 17th century, worked as
an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave. (E MCGILL)
1687
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin, 1958)
Kit Tyler left her luxurious home in Barbados to visit her Puritan aunt in colonial Connecticut. While there, she became
friendly with Hannah, the witch of Blackbird Pond. (J SPEARE)
1692
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky (Blue Sky, 1994)
When accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve year old Mary Chase fights to save her
mother from execution. (Y LASKY)
1692
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992)
While waiting for a church meeting, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and
accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. (Y RINALDI)
1692
Hester Bidgood: Investigatrix of Evill Deedes by E.W. Hildick (Macmillan, 1994)
Thirteen year old Hester Bidgood and her fourteen year old friend Rob Macgregor investigate the stoning and branding of
a kitten in a New England town caught in the grip of witchcraft rumors. (J HILDICK)
1692
I Walk in Dread: the Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
(Scholastic, 2004)
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch
hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
(J FRAUSTI)
1692
The Sacrifice by Kathleen Benner Duble (Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2005)
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a
miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom. (J DUBLE)
1692
Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry (Cromwell, 1964)
Tituba, taken from her own land to be a slave in New England, finds herself at the center of the Salem Witch Trials where
she is condemned for consorting with the devil. (J PETRY)
1692
Witches’ Children: A Story of Salem by Patricia Clapp (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1982)
During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and
strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are victims of witches. (J CLAPP)