| 1600 - 1775 (Colonial
America and Around the World) |
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| Avi |
Night
Journeys |
| When a teenager encounters two escaped indentured
servants, he has to make his own choices about freedom. |
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| Casanova, Mary |
Cecile:
Gates of Gold |
| In 1711, 12-year-old Cecile Revel unexpectedly
gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace
of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court
proves to be complicated and precarious. |
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| Clapp, Patricia |
Constance:
A Story of Early Plymouth |
| Constance keeps a journal of the early years in
the Plymouth settlement. |
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| Croutier, Alev Lytle |
Leyla:
The Black Tulip |
| While trying to help her financially destitute
family, 12-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for
Istanbul and the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers
that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows
its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities
during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the early 1700s. |
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| Dorris, Michael |
Guests |
| Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle
with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during
the time of the first Thanksgiving. |
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| Durrant, Lynda |
Echohawk |
| A 12-year-old white boy, adopted and raised by
Mohicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730s, is sent
with his younger brother to an English settlement for schooling.
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| Field, Rachel |
Calico
Bush |
| Twelve-year-old Maggie, an orphan from France,
spends a year with a pioneer family in Maine during the French
and Indian War. |
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| Harrah, Madge |
My
Brothers, My Enemy |
| Determined to avenge the massacre of his family,
14-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army
in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
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| Lasky, Kathryn |
Jahanara,
Princess of Princesses |
| Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter
of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary
about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences
of her life. |
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| Lasky, Kathryn |
Marie
Antoinette, Princess of Versailles |
| In 1769, 13-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna,
daughter or Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling
her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her
future role as Queen of France. |
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| Namioka, Lensey |
The
Coming of the Bear |
| Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning
by the Ainus, a primitive people on a northern Japanese island,
and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war
arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers. |
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| Nixon, Joan Lowery |
Young American Series, Colonial Williamsburg |
| Several titles giving a view of young people living
during the colonial period in Williamsburg. |
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| O'Dell, Scott |
My
Name Is Not Angelica |
| A young slave from Senegal becomes part of the
Slave Revolt on the Caribbean Island of St. John in 1733-34.
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| Park, Linda Sue |
Seesaw
Girl |
| Impatient with the constraints put on her as an
aristocratic girl living in Korea during the 17th century, 12-year-old
Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world. |
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| Paterson, Katherine |
The
Master Puppeteer |
| Poverty and famine force a 13-year-old boy to
leave his family and become an apprentice to a puppeteer in
18th century Japan. |
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| Petry, Ann Lane |
Tituba
of Salem Village |
| Tituba the slave is convicted of witchcraft because
the village people misunderstood her exceptional intelligence
and sensitivity. |
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| Place, Francois |
The
Old Man Mad About Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai |
| Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese
capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover
that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous
artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers,
animals, and landscapes. |
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| Sheely, Robert |
In
the Hands of the Enemy |
| Lost in the woods near Plymouth Colony, 14-year-old
John, a member of the troublemaking Billington family that accompanied
the Pilgrims on their Mayflower voyage in 1620, receives shelter
and nourishment from the Nauset tribe. |
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| Smith, Patricia Clark |
Weetamoo,
Heart of the Pocassets |
| In 1653, a 14-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined
to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes
after a ritual fast she undertakes and with her tribe's interaction
with the English "Coat-men" of nearby Plymouth Colony. |
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| Speare, Elizabeth George |
Calico
Captive |
| A New England girl and her family are captured
by Indians and forced to march to Montreal in 1754. |
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| Speare, Elizabeth George |
The
Sign of the Beaver |
| Matt learns survival skills from the Indians after
he is left alone to protect his family's home in Maine in 1768.
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| Speare, Elizabeth George |
The
Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| In 1687, Kit Tyler feels loneliness, having moved
from the Caribbean islands to Connecticut Colony until she meets
another lone and mysterious figure, the old woman known as the
Witch of Blackbird Pond. When their friendship is discovered,
Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is
accused of witchcraft. |
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| Steele, William |
Winter
Danger |
After he leaves home, 11-year-old Caje helps his
family survive a difficult winter.
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