American Historical Fiction for Teens

Witch Child The Witch of Celia Rees AMERICAN HISTORICAL FICTION PB YA REES Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare In 1659, Mary Newbury keeps FOR TEENS a journal of her voyage from YA SPEARE England to the New World and In 1687, Kit Tyler, feeling New World, New Nation: her experiences living as a out of place in the Puritan witch in a community of household of her aunt, 1600s-1799 Puritans near Salem, MA. befriends an old woman considered a witch The Color of Fire by the community and Chains Ann Rinaldi suddenly finds herself Laurie Halse Anderson YA ANDERSON YA RINALDI standing trial for witchcraft. After being sold to a cruel couple In 1741, Phoebe watches as her town erupts into mass hysteria The Mourning Wars in New York City, a slave named when the whites in New York Karen Steinmetz Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. City accuse the slaves of YA STEINMETZ Sequel: Forge planning an uprising. In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Fever 1793 Finishing Becca Deerfield, MA, kidnapping Laurie Halse Anderson Ann Rinaldi over 100 residents, including YA ANDERSON YA RINALDI Eunice Williams. Based on In 1793 Philadelphia, Matilda Becca takes a position as a a true story. Cook, separated from her sick maid in a wealthy Philadelphia mother, learns about perseverance Quaker home and witnesses Father of Lies and self-reliance when she is the events that lead to General Ann Turner forced to cope with the horrors Benedict Arnold's betrayal of YA TURNER of a yellow fever epidemic. the American forces during In 1692 when a plague of the Revolutionary War. accusations descends on The Astonishing Life of Salem Village and "witch Octavian Nothing V. 1: The Pox Party Or Give Me Death fever" erupts, Lidda, who Ann Rinaldi M. T. Anderson has begun to experience YA RINALDI YA ANDERSON With their father away visions and hear voices, Various diaries, letters, and other advocating independence for tries to expose the lies of manuscripts chronicle the life of the American colonies, the the witch trials without Octavian, a young African children of Patrick Henry try being hanged as a witch American, as he is brought up as to raise themselves. herself. Includes author's part of a science experiment in the notes about the Salem Witch years leading up to and during the A Ride into Morning Trials and bipolar disease. Revolutionary War. Sequel: The Ann Rinaldi Kingdom on the Waves YA RINALDI When unrest spreads at the waukesha Public library The Fighting Ground Revolutionary War camp in Avi Morristown, NJ a young woman 321 Wisconsin Ave. YA AVI cleverly hides her horse from Waukesha, WI 53186 Jonathan goes off to fight in the the mutinous soldiers who have (262) 524-3682 Revolutionary War and discovers need of it. www.waukesha.lib.wi.us the real war is being fought within www.facebook.com/WPLTeenZone himself. 4/14 aw The Year of the Hangman The Ransom of Mercy Carter Indian Captive Gary L. Blackwood Caroline B. Cooney Lois Lenski YA BLACKWOOD YA COONEY YA LENSKI In 1777, having been In 1704, in the English A fictional retelling of kidnapped and taken forcibly settlement of Deerfield, MA the experiences of Mary from England to the American Mercy and her family and Jemison, who was captured colonies, Creighton becomes neighbors are captured by by a Shawnee war party part of developments in the Mohawk Indians and their during the French and French allies, and forced to political unrest that may spell Indian War. march through bitter cold to defeat for the patriots and French Canada, where some Soldier’s Secret change the course of history. adapt to new lives. Marissa Moss The Winter People Copper Sun YA MOSS Joseph Bruchac Sharon M. Draper Sarah masquerades as a man YA BRUCHAC YA DRAPER during the Civil War, serving As the French and Indian War Two girls, one a slave and the as a nurse on the battlefield rages in October of 1759, other an indentured servant, and a spy for the Union Saxso, an Abenaki boy, escape their Carolina plantation Army. Based on the life of pursues the English rangers and try to make their way to Sarah Emma Edmonds. who have attacked his village Fort Moses, FL, a Spanish and taken his mother and colony that gives sanctuary The Serpent Never Sleeps sisters hostage. to slaves. Scott O’Dell YA O’DELL Jump Ship to Freedom Five 4ths of July In the early seventeenth James Lincoln Collier Pat Hughes century, Serena Lynn, and Christopher Collier YA HUGHES determined to be with the On July 4th, 1777, Jake PB YA COLLIER man she has loved since Mallory and his friends are In 1787 a fourteen-year-old childhood, travels to the celebrating their new nation's New World and comes to slave, anxious to buy freedom independence, but over the know the hardships of for himself and his mother, next four years Jake finds escapes from his dishonest himself in increasingly colonial life and the master and tries to find help adventurous circumstances extraordinary Princess in cashing the soldier's notes as he battles British forces and Pocahontas. received by his father for barely survives captivity on fighting in the Revolution. a prison ship. Woods Runner Gary Paulsen My Brother Sam is Dead My Lady, Pocahontas YA PAULSEN James Lincoln Collier Kathleen V. Kudlinski From his 1776 Pennsylvania and Christopher Collier YA KUDLINSKI homestead, Samuel, who is PB YA COLLIER Nuttagwon, daughter of a a highly-skilled woodsman, Recounts the tragedy that minor Pamunkey chief, is sets out toward New York strikes the Meeker family still a girl when Pocahontas's City to rescue his parents during the Revolution when vision of peace between their from the band of British one son joins the rebel forces people and the newly-arrived soldiers and Indians who while the rest of the family English colonists bonds the kidnapped them after tries to stay neutral in a two in a lifelong friendship slaughtering most of their Tory town. as they work together to community. make the vision a reality. .

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