Great episodes

Series

Language

English

Description

While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

4) Earthquake at dawn

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

5) The primrose way

Author

Koller, Jackie French

6) Song of the buffalo boy

Author

Garland, Sherry

7) Where the broken heart still beats: the story of Cynthia Ann Parker

Author

Meyer, Carolyn

Series

Pub. Date

[1992]

Physical Desc

197 pages : map, portrait ; 22 cm

Language

English

8) The fifth of March: a story of the Boston Massacre

Author

Great episodes
American colonies

Series

Pub. Date

[1993]

Physical Desc

x, 333 pages ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

9) Finishing Becca: a story about Peggy Shipton and Benedict Arnold

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

10) Indio

Author

Garland, Sherry

Series

Pub. Date

1995.

Physical Desc

x, 292 pages ; 18 cm.

Language

English

Description

Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border.

11) The secret of Sarah Revere

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

12) An acquaintance with darkness

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

294 pages ; 18 cm.

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.

13) Cast two shadows: the American revolution in the South

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1998.

Physical Desc

281 pages.

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.

14) The coffin quilt: the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

pages ; cm.

Language

English

Description

In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.

15) Air raid--Pearl Harbor!: The story of December 7, 1941

Author

Taylor, Theodore

Series

Pub. Date

[1971]

Physical Desc

185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Language

English

Description

Examines from both the American and Japanese points of view the political and military events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

16) In the shadow of the Alamo

Author

Garland, Sherry

17) Just Jane: A daughter of England caught in the struggle of the American Revolution

Author

Lavender, William

Series

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

328 pages ; 18 cm.

Language

English

Description

Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.

18) Or give me death: a novel of Patrick Henry's family

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2003.

Physical Desc

226 pages ; 22 cm.

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.

19) An unlikely friendship: a novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2007]

Physical Desc

241 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description