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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 22
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied, thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring.
Author
Series
Magic tree house fact trackers volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.
Author
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist-and the most prominent celebrity of the eighteenth century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions,...
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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,...
8) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Includes a new epilogue and an updated bibliography.
11) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 1
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1987, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 22
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
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.
19) The Keeping Room
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their South Carolina home to fight in the Revolutionary War, thirteen year-old Joey Kershaw finds all his resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and chooses the Kershaw house as his headquarters.
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Cole and her best friend Felicity are known as pranksters in colonial Virginia and their favorite target is Elizabeth's older sister Annabelle, but when Annabelle becomes engaged the girls get into big trouble.