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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history-yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the American Revolution, one battle changes a boy's life-and a nation's history-forever On April 18, 1775, musket shots ring out over Lexington, Massachusetts. As the sun rises over the battlefield, fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper stands among the outmatched patriots, facing a line of British troops. Determined to defend his home and prove his worth to his disapproving father, Cooper is about to embark on the most significant day of his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventure continues! Dr. Trefusis accompanies Octavian as he flees to Boston, which is occupied by British forces. When Lord Dunmore offers freedom to slaves in return for their service against the revolution, will Octavian be tempted to join?
10) Freedom's light
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young lighthouse keeper, recently widowed, faces war and deprivation to find happiness with a shipwrecked captain who's a spy for George Washington"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated account of bookseller Henry Knox's heroic contributions during the Revolutionary War, describing how he dragged fifty-nine cannons to Boston across 225 miles filled with danger and hardship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
With eloquence equal to Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." Adams played a pivotal role not fully appreciated until now in the events leading up to the confrontation with the British. Believing that God willed a free American nation, he was among the first to call for independence....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Redcoats are coming! The Redcoats are coming! Every second counts as patriot Paul Revere rides into the night to warn the colonists. Will he make it? Young readers will find out all about this real-life American hero in this fun, action-packed Step 3 reader. "History and biography are also successful topics for level three readers. Random's Step into Reading has the best offerings for the reading level. . . . They are high in kid appeal"-
15) Paul Revere
Author
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the American patriot who rode from Bostonto Lexington to warn his fellow citizens that the British were coming.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become...
