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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 11
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.
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Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
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2017.
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With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and...
48) Magic lessons
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Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared...
50) Maryland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Presents the history of Maryland, from its earliest beginnings in the seventeenth century up to the end of the eighteenth century, following the American Revolution.
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A young aristocratic woman is wrongfully arrested for a crime and sent to America on a convict ship, where she is sold as an indentured servant to a ship builder, a widower with a two-year-old son. They eventually marry, but the unexpected arrival of their families from England complicate their marriage and force them to confront an adversary from the woman's past.
52) The lacemaker
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2018.
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"On the eve of her wedding, Lady Elisabeth Lawsons world is shattered, as surely as the fine glass windows of her colonial Williamsburg home. In a town seething with Patriots ready for rebellion, her protection comes from an unlikely source."--Provided by publisher.
When colonial Williamsburg explodes like a powder keg on the eve of the American Revolution, Lady Elisabeth "Liberty" Lawson is abandoned by her fiancé and suspected of being a spy for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1724, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
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A history of US volume 3
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Covers American history from the French and Indian War to the Constitutional Convention.
55) Witch child
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
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"It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing...
57) Copper sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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"This book reinterprets American experience in the formative first half of our history. Emphatically rejecting the notion that America was merely a "second chance" for Europe, that the Revolution was a recapitulation and a preview of European revolutions, Dr. Boorstin finds in the new and unforseen conditions of early American life the roots of a distinctive civilization. The grand vision of democracy, for example, emerges, not as the inspired product...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.