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Author
Series
Publisher
Gulliver Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During the Revolutionary War, sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British king.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
6) My Vicksburg
Author
Publisher
Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure, ' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life ..."
10) Girl in Blue
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
11) Sarah's ground
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert. Includes historical notes.
12) Amelia's war
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A Confederate general's threat to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless its citizens pay him an exorbitant ransom, prompts twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend to find some way to save their community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
15) The staircase
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
16) Come Juneteenth
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
17) Brooklyn Rose
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The joys, heartaches, fears, and struggles of 15-year-old Rose Frampton, who is in transition from child to woman in 1900 Brooklyn, are expressed in diary form as she tries to make a place for herself far from her family and familiar environment.
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.