Great episodes
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Jenny of the Tetons
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A ride into morning: the story of Tempe Wick
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A break with charity: a story about the Salem witch trials
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Earthquake at dawn
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The primrose way
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Song of the buffalo boy
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Where the broken heart still beats: the story of Cynthia Ann Parker
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Author
Series
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf,LLC
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh is nanny to John and Abigail Adams’ children and witnesses firsthand how tension builds in the feisty New England town in the two years before it erupts in the Boston Massacre. Friends become foes and families divide as British troops arrive in 1768 to force the outspoken Bostonians to toe the line and obey the British government.
But the idea of liberty and self-government has taken hold, and once considered,
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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Description
An independent-minded young maid tells the story of social-climber Peggy Shippen and how she influenced Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the Patriot forces. Revolutionary Philadelphia is brought to life as Becca seeks to find her "missing pieces" while exploring the complicated issues of the war between the impoverished independence men and the decadent British Tories. "This tale of treachery comes alive under [Rinaldi's] pen."—Kirkus Reviews
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Indio
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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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Description
The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father’s secret—and her own: “A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent.”—VOYA
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new...
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A teenage orphan is caught up in President Lincoln’s assassination—and another macabre plot—in this “fast-paced and dramatic” historical novel (Publishers Weekly).
Emily’s mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn’t know about. But after Emily is orphaned—as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the...
Emily’s mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn’t know about. But after Emily is orphaned—as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
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.
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Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Edition
1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
16)
In the shadow of the Alamo
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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
A young English Lady discovers love, independence, and the true meaning of home in this YA historical romance set during the Revolutionary War.
South Carolina, 1776. The orphaned daughter of an English earl, fourteen-year-old Lady Jane Prentice has just arrived in Charlestown to find herself in the middle of heated conflicts both personal and political. While war rages between her former country and her new home, another...
South Carolina, 1776. The orphaned daughter of an English earl, fourteen-year-old Lady Jane Prentice has just arrived in Charlestown to find herself in the middle of heated conflicts both personal and political. While war rages between her former country and her new home, another...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
A surprising Revolutionary War tale of a family beset by a mother’s mental illness: “Often gripping…the portrayal of Patrick Henry is unusually complex.”—Publishers Weekly
Patrick Henry, the famous statesman of the American Revolution, has a secret: He keeps his wife in the cellar. It’s the only alternative to an asylum, for, slowly losing her mind, Sarah Henry has become a serious...
Patrick Henry, the famous statesman of the American Revolution, has a secret: He keeps his wife in the cellar. It’s the only alternative to an asylum, for, slowly losing her mind, Sarah Henry has become a serious...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.