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I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs -- and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war -- brutal,...
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Outlander novels volume 8
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English
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"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written...
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Outlander novels volume 9
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English
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"It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't...
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Outlander novels volume 6
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English
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Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon's "New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over -- and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary...
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Outlander novels volume 7
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English
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Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But fighting for the eventual winner is no guarantee of safety. And worse still, the possibility of pointing a weapon at his own son, a young officer in the British army, haunts Jamie's every thought. In the relative safety of the 20th century, their daughter, Brianna, and her husband experience the unfolding drama...
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Song of Acadia volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In 18th-century England, spiritual sisters Anne and Nicole find themselves facing different roads into the future. While Anne is settling into mannered British life, she prays for best friend Nicole, who is now planning a voyage to Boston to take control of her uncle's landholdings. Heading into the seething heart of the American Revolutionary War, Nicole is ill-prepared for the grave dangers and ravages of war that confront her.
10) The beloved land
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Song of Acadia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Faith in God and family have brought Henri Robichauds to Louisiana and a lllife of tranquility in the bayous. Back in Nova Scotia, the family of Andrew Harrows have been beacons of light in both the British and French communities. Two sisters Anne and Nicole are separated by the American Revolution.
11) Woods runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
12) The rebels
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A patriot soldier in the ragtag Continental army, Philip Kent defies the rule of the British crown, fighting for the future of his adopted American homeland and the future of his wife and newborn son. And when Philip's heroism draws the attention of General George Washington, he is sent on an overwhelmingly risky mission vital to the success of the Revolution. But no sacrifice is too great for freedom . --www.johjakes.com
13) The rifle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 22
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Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
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[2018]
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English
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Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Tells not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal - but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"The year is 1773; the scene is Boston. Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. He is gifted and clever and lords his talent over the other apprentices - until tragedy srtikes. A crucible of molten silver breaks and the silver spills over Johnny's right hand. The hand is so badly burned, it's useless - and now, so is Johnny. Since he is no longer able to become a silversmith, Johnny's life takes a new path, one that will bring...
17) The bastard
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This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.
19) Sarah Bishop
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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.
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"The basis for the epic Technicolor film starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. Lana and Gil Martin marry in 1776, just as the rumblings of war begin to echo throughout the wilderness of the Mohawk Valley. Though aided by strengthening relationships with fellow settlers, establishing their new home on the frontier is constantly threatened by conflicts with British Loyalists and the Seneca Indians, who use violence to drive people off the land....