8th gr.
HISTORICAL FICTION AT LAGUNA LIBRARY
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Call# Author Title
to
the royal governor, General Gage, after his plan to sled down the steep hill at
Boston Common is
thwarted
by the masses of British troops camped there. AR level 5.2
F Breslin
Howard. Silver
Oar A tale of a young
pirate on his way to execution.
F Brown, Slater. Gray Bonnets
Quakers are accused of being witches.
F Bulla,
colony of
F Cavanna, Betty. Ruffles and Drums
Sarah, a 16-yr.-old girl witnesses the famous confrontation between British
troops and American farmers at the start of the
Revolution. A wartime romance.RL 6.1
F Chickering, Marjorie. Yankee Trader: Ben Tanner 1799
Ben is 16 when he gets his longed for chance to accompany a
trader on a trip from VT to
F Clapp,
Patricia. Constance:
A Story of Early
F Clapp, Patricia. Witches’ Children
During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of
themselves subject to fits of screaming & strange visions,
some believe that they have see the devil
&
are the victims of witches. RL 6
F Coatsworth,
Eliz. Golden Horseshoe
F Collier, J. L. & C.. War
Comes to Willy Freeman A free 13-yr.-old black girl in
horror
of theRevolutionary War and the danger of being
returned to slavery when her patriot father
is killed by the British and her mother disappears. AR 4.9
F Cooke, Donald E. Little Wolf Slayer: story of Philadelphia’s Quakers
Good historical research reveals facts
that are little known about the hardships suffered by the
early settlers of William Penn’s
F Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter In
1704, in the English settlement of
11year-old
Mercy & her family & neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians &
their French allies, &
forced
to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives
& some still
hope
to be ransomed. AR 4.7
F Curry, Jane L. A Stolen LifeIn
1758, in
severely tested when she is abducted by ‘’Spriters’
and, after a harrowing voyage, sold as a bond
slave
to a
F Denenberg,
Barry. Journal
of William Thomas Emerson: Rev. War Patriot,
Is
Revolutionary
War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the
British
rule. AR 5.6
F Dorris,
Michael. Sees
Behind Trees A Native American boy with the gift to
“see” beyond his poor eyesight
journeys
with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.RL5.9
F Durrant,
Lynda. Beaded
Moccasins: Story of Mary Campbell After being
captured by a group of
Indians
& given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter.
travel
west with them to Ohio.RL4.8
F Durrant,
Lynda. Echohawk A 12-yr.-old white
boy adopted & raised by Mohicans in the
1730s, is sent with his
younger brother to an English settlement for schooling.RL4.8
F Faulkner,
Patriot in 1777 in Tory Philadelphia when she gets a chance to play
a vital part in the Revolution.
F Field, Rachel. Calico Bush
Set in Colonial Maine, the story tells of Marguerite, a french
girl known as Molly,
who is bound-out
to a family of American pioneers during the time of the French and
Indian War.
AR
level 6.2
F Fleischman, Paul Saturnalia
In 1681 in Boston, 14-yr.-old William, a Narraganset
Indian captured in a raid 6 years
earlier,
leads a productive & contented life as a printer’s apprentice
but is increasingly anxious to
make
some connection with his Indian past.AR level 6.4
F Fritz, Jean. Early Thunder
In pre-revolutionary
King
as the conflict between Tories and patriots increasingly divides the
townspeople. AR level 5.4
F Hildick,
E. W. Hester
Bidgood 13-yr.-old Hester
& her 15-yr.-old friend Rob investigate the stoning & branding
of
a kitten in a
1692.
F Keehn,
Sally M. I
am
onto memories of her
earlier life as she grows up. AR level 4.4
F* Kirkpatrick, K. Troubles Daughter: Story of Susana
Hutchinson, Indian Captive When her family is
massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, 9 yr.-old Susanna,
daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured
&
raised as a Lenape. AR level 4.8
F Lasky,
Kathryn. Beyond
the Burning Time When in 1691 accusations of witchcraft
rose in her small New
F* Lasky,
Kathryn. Journey
to the New World: Diary of Remember Patience Whipple(Dear
year-old
Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her
family made on the Mayflower in 1620
and their first year in the
F Lenski,
Lois. Puritan
Adventure Young Aunt Charity comes to join the
Partridge family in Massassachuttes
Bay
Colony, bringing with her pretty clothes and a merry laugh, both strange in the
sober Puritan
Colony. But it is she who saves the colony in a time of danger.RL 6.0
F Lunn,
Janet. The
Hollow Tree In 1777 15-yr.-old Phoebe Olcott
is thrown headlong into the turmoil of war
when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged as a British spy. AR
5.8
F O’Dell, Scott. Serpent Never Sleeps: a Novel of
with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to
the
hardships of colonial life & the extraordinary Princess
Pocahontas. AR 6.5
F Osborne, Mary Pope. Standing in the Light:Captive Diary of Catharine C. Logan,
1763(Dear
America series A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the
Delaware
River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians. AR level 5.1
F Nixon, Joan Lowery. Ann’s Story: 1747
Ann, a young girl in eighteenth-century
doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study
Latin or mathematics. AR level 4.9 5
F Nixon,
Joan Lowery. Caesar’s Story: 1759:
After having been a slave on Carter’s Grove plantation near
since
childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future. AR 5.1
F Petry, Ann. Tituba
of
even
thread; of planting a garden; of caring for livestock; these hands bring Tituba to trial for
witchcraft.. AR 5.4
F Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity: Story about
the
meeting
in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy
&
accusations of witchcraft.AR 4.7
F Rinaldi, Ann. Hang a Thousand Trees with
Ribbons: Story of Phillis Wheatley
A fictionalized biography
of
the 18th century African woman who, as a child, was brought to
after
publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the
colonies as an
important black American poet.AR
4.0
F Rinaldi, Ann. Journal of Jasper Jonathan
Pierce: a pilgrim boy A 14-year-old indentured servant keeps
a
journal
of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth
Plantation in 1620
and 1621. AR 4.9
F Rinaldi, Ann. Secret of Sarah Revere
Paul Revere’s daughter describes her
father’s rides and the intelligence
network of the patriotic community prior to the American
Revolution AR 3.7
F Shaik, Fatima. Melitte
In 1772, years of mistreatment force 13-yr.-old Melitte
to decide whether or not to run
away
from the Frenchman
who has kept her as a slave on his poor
young
girl who is the only person who ever loved her. AR 5.1
F Speare, Elizabeth. Calico Captive
In 1754 a raid on her small
a prisoner of the
Indians, forced to take part in a harrowing march north. AR level 6.0
F Speare, Elizabeth. Sign of the Beaver
Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in eighteenth-century
F Speare, Elizabeth. Witch
of Blackbird Pond Kit Tyler, on a visit to
friendly
with Hannah the witch, teaches a little girl to read, and is
saved in
the ensuing witchhunt.
AR level 5.7
F Stainer, M. L. The
F Stainer, M. L. The Lyon’s Roar14-yr.-old
Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to
Island
in 1587, thei attempt to make a permanent settlement,
and Jess’s
contact with the Croatoan
Indians. AR level 5.9
F Wyeth, Sharon D. Once on this River.While
on a trip with her mother from
1760,11-yr.-old
Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her other mother.
AR level 4.4
AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW
NATION (through 1850s)
Call # Author Title
Alder, Elizabeth. Crossing the Panther’s Path
16 year-old Bill Calder, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk
woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to
prevent the Americns from taking any more
land from the Indians in the
F Allen,
Merritt P. Red
Heritage
F Auch, Mary Jane. Frozen Summer
(1815) An exciting tale of a family who packs up a covered wagon headed for the
the wilderness of western N.Y. RL 4.8
F Avi. The
Barn In an
effort to fulfill their dying father’s last request Ben and his brother &
sister
construct
a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.RL 5.8
F Avi. Beyond the
village
in 1850, 15-yr.-old Maura & her younger brother meet their landlord’s runaway son in
Liverpool
while all 3 wait for a ship to
F Avi. Beyond the
Western Sea, Book 2: Lord Kirkle’s Money
The story continues in Book 2 as
the fate of the characters
continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.RL5.5
F Avi. Captian Grey
Following the Revolution in
1783, an 11-yr.-old boy becomes the captive of
ruthless man who has
set up his own nation, supported by piracy, on a remote part of
the New
F Avi. The Fighting
Ground 13-yr.-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the
Revolutionary War & discovers
the
real war is being fought within
himself.RL6.4
F Avi. True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle As the lone “young lady” on a transatlantic
voyage in
1832,
F Ayres,
Katherine. North
by Night: Story of the Underground RailroadRL
4.8
F Banim, Lisa. The Hessian’s
Secret Diary During the summer of 1776, a 10
year-old Peggy discovers a
wounded
soldier in the woods near her
the
secret notes of a Hessian spy. RL 5.5
F
F Blos, Joan. A Gathering of Days: a
lived
on the family farm, records daily events in her small
remarriage, & the death of her best friend. Newbery Medal book. RL6.0
F Boyd, James. Drums
Johnny Frasier, the son of Scottish immigrants now living in
fight
in the Revolutionary War & has adventures on both sides of the
F Bruchac,
Joseph. Sacajawea Sacajawea,
a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, &
guide, & William Clark
alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis & Clark
Expedition to the Northwest. RL6.5
F Bryant, Louella. The Black Bonnet
As they near the end of their journey for freedom along the Underground
railroad,
12 yr.-old Charity & her 16-yr.-old sister Bea encounter additional perils.
RL7.9
F Carbone,
Elisa. Stealing
Freedom Based on the events of a young slave girl
from
of
mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who
eventually escapes
to
F Churchill, Claire. South of the Sunset: an interpretation
of Sacajawea, the Indian girl who accompanied.
F Collier, James L. My Brother Sam is Dead
Story recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family when one son
joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to
stay neutral in a Torytown. RL5.8
F Collier, James L. The Bloody Country
In the mid-18th century a family moves from
and
becomes involved in the property conflict between the 2 states.RL5.2
F Collier, James L. The Clock
When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner
workings
of
a clock, 15-yr.-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town’s new wool mill to help support her
family. Her job is full of risk especially after she discovers
that the mill’s cruel overseer is stealing
bags
of wool
& she decides to do something about it. RL6.9
F Collier, James L. Jump Ship to Freedom
By rights, young Daniel Arabus & his mother,
slaves in Captain Iver’s
house
in
sells Daniel on board a ship to the
F Collier, James L. Who is Carrie?
A young black girl living in
event
taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own
identity. RL5.8
F DeFelice, Cynthia. Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, Lucas
becomes
a doctor’s
apprentice.AR 5.2
F DeFelice,
Cynthia. Weasel
Alone in the wilderness in 1849 while his father is recovering from an injury,
Nathan runs
afoul
of the renegade
killer known as Weasel & makes a surprising discovery about the concept of
revenge.
RL7.0
F Denenberg,
Barry. So
Far from Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish
Mill Girl (Dear
the
potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her
deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of
murder force her to rally more courage than
she thought she had. AR 4.4
F Donahue, John. An Island Far from Home
The son of a Union army doctor killed in
understand
the meaning of war & the fine line between friends & enemies when he
begins
corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war.
RL5.5
F Durrant,
Lynda Betsy Zane, the Rose of
novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphis
to return to her brothers’homestead near
what is now
Revolution. RL5.8
F
Revolutionary War who
endured terrible hardships to form a free nation in the wilderness of the
new
world. AD
F
frontier in 1778.
F Fast, Howard. April Morning
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial
day in which he joined the militia and saw his father shot
down by the British.RL8.0 Newbery
Award
winner.
F Finlayson, Ann. Rebecca’s
War Left in charge of her brother & sister in
occupied
old Rebecca’s
life is complicated even further when 2 British soldiers are billeted in her
house.
F Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain
The story of a young silver apprentice during the exciting time of the Tea
Party,
culminates in the Battle of Lexington. A story of
seen
in the experience of a courier for the revolutionary Committee for Public Safety.RL5.3
F Fox, Paula.