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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian war, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N.H., where they are held for ransom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On August 10, 1813, with the British navy advancing up the Chesapeake Bay to destroy the shipyards in St. Michaels, Maryland, young Henry Middle thinks of a way to save his home town from British cannons.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1778 fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as personal maid to Peggy Shippen, the daughter of wealthy Philadelphia Quakers, and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the revolutionary American forces.
11) Loyalty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the power of partisan rumor to distort facts, the hypocrisy of men who demand freedom while enslaving others, and the human connections that bind people together regardless of stated allegiances. Awash in contradictory information and participating in key events leading to the...
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Series
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counter revolutionary 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.
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Language
English
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Description
Young Robert Lennox, along with his Onondaga friend Tayoga, and hunter David Willett, try to escape capture by the French and their Indian allies, making their way south along Lake George in the wilds of New York State to warn the British forces of impending attack.
15) Gallows Hill
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Language
English
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Description
"Salem, Massachusetts - 1692. Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he's outnumbered and distrusted by Salem's Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep. In a stroke of luck-perhaps good, perhaps not-he's taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins, who's rumored to be a witch. Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritan-obedient...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
17) Washington's war
Author
Series
Blast to the past volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abigail and her friends have an important job today: They must convince George Washington to stay in Valley Forge and continue to fight the Revolutionary War. The future of America depends on him!
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Series
Language
English
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Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design!Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers...
20) Saturnalia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian 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 Indian past.
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