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Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Boston Tea Party marked the beginning of the American colonies' break from British rule and would go on to inspire future protest movements. Boston Tea Party reveals why British laws prompted the event, how it led to the American Revolutionary War, and what later movements borrowed from the colonist's protest. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents,...
Author
Series
A history of US volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young readers will be fascinated to learn what life was like for the colonists in early America. The detailed images and easy-to-read text explore such topics as Puritans, the Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Navigation Acts, and slavery. Along with brief biographies on colonists and Indians like John Smith, William Penn, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe, this engaging reader explains means of survival and living through farming, colonial crops, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets...
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
More than 200 years ago, Great Britain ruled the American colonies. Many colonists believed the British were ruling them unfairly. But many others wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain. Hear the words they spoke. Read the words they read. And see the differing points of view about the fight for U.S. Independence through the eyes of the people who lived it.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the three groups of people most impacted by the discovery of America, Europeans, the discoverers; native Americans, the original inhabitants; and the first African slaves, brought to provide the labor to harvest crops.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Indentured Heart opens another chapter in the compelling House of Winslow. While in England, Adam Winslow rescues Molly Burns from her abusive father and brings her to America, where Molly becomes his indentured servant. A young girl, a family, and a new nation are bound together in their search for freedom.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Captive Bride follows the Winslow family as they assist in the building of a great nation. With courage and spirit, Rachel Winslow stands up to the enemies of freedom. Can she face unjust imprisonment--even death--without retreat?
14) Colonial cooking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, most important foods, and celebrations of the colonial period in American history. Includes recipes and sidebars.
Author
Series
History of US volume 3
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Covers American history from the French and Indian War to the Constitutional Convention.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The volume that launched the blockbuster House of Winslow series. Gilbert Winslow, forced by his family into the pulpit of the Church of England, becomes a spy among religious separatists. Who will he turn to when the forces of good and evil threaten to pull him apart?
18) Jubal Sackett
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful medicine man whom they called "Ni'kwana, master of mysteries."...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the circumstances preceding and following the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the men who wrote and signed it, and the document's importance to United States history.
Author
Series
Westward America! volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1750's Pennsylvania, INTO THE WILDERNESS depicts life in the Allegheny Mountains and the Northeast at the beginning of the French and Indian War. Noah Wilde is a "long hunter," a man who hunts game for settlements and forts and is sometimes gone for months at a time.
Sixteen-year-old Jessica Matthews is attacked by Ottawa Indians and is saved by Noah, who is wounded in the encounter. As Noah recovers at Jessica's mountain cabin, he and Jessica...
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