Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Historical - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods

As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at...

Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit's friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined...

Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier.

Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Honor-winning survival story is filled with wonderful detail about living in the...

Bronco Manley is camping with his family at the Star Fort National Historic Site. It's the annual reenactment of the Revolutionary War Battle of 96. Bronco and his horse Hammer ride into a light that flashes them back to 1775. Travel with Bronco to Charlestown and ride with Francis Marion to Fort Watson. Then return to 96 with General Greene and participate in the Siege of Star Fort. History is alive in this 3rd book of the Star Fort Saga. Visit Star Fort. Experience history for yourself.

Bronco Manley is camping with his family at the Star Fort National Historic Site. It's the annual reenactment of the Revolutionary War Battle of 96. Bronco and his horse Hammer ride into a light that flashes them back to 1775. Travel with Bronco to Charlestown and ride with Francis Marion to Fort Watson. Then return to 96 with General Greene and participate in the Siege of Star Fort. History is alive in this 3rd book of the Star Fort Saga. Visit Star Fort. Experience history for yourself.

Blistering winds. Bitter cold. And the hope of a new future. In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles--and in the midst of the American Revolution.

The Patriot Army...

Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners, so he created the character of a fearless middle-school history teacher named Rush Revere, who travels back in time and experiences American history as it happens, in adventures with exceptional Americans. In this book,...