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Author
Series
Outlander novel volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
3) 1776
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the American victory at Trenton.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the lives of women who helped shape the United States, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later, as the book ends, Washington...
8) The rifle
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
105 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
9) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Washington retreated from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over, but he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York known as the Culper Spy Ring. These six individuals with identities unknown until the twentieth century, turned the tide of the war.
Author
Publisher
MyReportLinks.com Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the military tactics, battles, and famous figures of the war that gained the American colonies their independence from Great Britain and includes Internet links to Web sites and source documents.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 22
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: 9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1943
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As he awaits execution, American patriot and Revolutionary War army captain Nathan Hale recounts his spy mission, arrest by the British army, trial, and sentence.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of the Haitian Revolution and its role in Napoleon's decision to sell Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe the whole Louisiana Territory, when they sought to buy only New Orleans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
139 p. : ill., map, ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
James, Sarah, Henri, and Moses travel to Virginia, where they witness Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech, and then travel to Boston and find themselves at the Concord Bridge when the shot heard 'round the world is fired.