Listed below are books available in the Falk School Library which may be useful for Mr. Kramer's U.S. History Book Report project. See Colonial America, Biography for additional titles.
Guide
Call Number
Author.
Title. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
Annotation.
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F COL
Collier, James Lincoln.
The Corn Raid : [A story of the
Jamestown settlement]. Lincolnwood, IL : Jamestown
Publishers, c2000.
F FOR
Forrester, Sandra.
Wheel of the Moon. New York : HarperCollins,
c2000. In England in 1627, newly orphaned Pen Downing
leaves her country village for London, where she is abducted
and sent to Virginia to work as an indentured servent.
F MOO
Moore, Robin.
The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek. 1st ed. New
York : J.B. Lippincott, c1990. Fourteen-year-old Maggie
Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread,
struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the
late 1700s.
F SPE
Speare, Elizabeth George.
The Sign of the Beaver. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, c1983. Left alone to guard the family's
wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is
hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their
skills.
F SPE
Speare, Elizabeth George.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Boston,
: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. A young girl's rebellion against
bigotry culminates in a terrifying witch hunt and trial.
PB 3 ODE
O'Dell, Scott.
The Serpent Never Sleeps : a Novel of Jamestown
and Pocahontas. New York : Ballantine, 1987. In the early
seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the
man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World
and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the
extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.
PB 3 KOL
Koller, Jackie French.
The Primrose Way. San Diego: Gulliver Books,
1992.
A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah,
a missionary's daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins
to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.
Series DEA F LAS
Lasky, Kathryn.
A Journey to the New World : the Diary of
Remember Patience Whipple. New York : Scholastic, 1996.
Twelve-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 New World.
Series DEA F OSB
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Standing in the Light : the Captive Diary of
Catherine Carey Logan. New York : Scholastic, 1998. A
Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in
the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by
Lenape Indians in 1763.
Series HIS F MCD
McDonald, Megan.
Shadows in the Glasshouse. Middleton, WI :
Pleasant, c2000. While working as an indentured servant for
a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry
uncovers a case of sabotage.
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Series MYN F RIN
Rinaldi, Ann.
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim
Boy, Plymouth, 1620. New York: Scholastic, 2000. A
fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his
experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of
Plymouth in 1620-1621.
YA BRU
Bruchac, Joseph.
Pocahontas. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. :
Harcourt, c2003. Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and
John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the
encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English
colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia.
YA CLA
Clapp, Patricia.
Constance : a Story of Early Plymouth. New
York: Beech Tree Books, 1968. A young girl's diary reflects
life in Plymouth Colony.
YA COL
Collier, James Lincoln.
The Bloody Country. New York :
Scholastic, c1976. In the mid-eighteenth century a family
moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved
in the property conflict between the two states.
YA COO and PB 3 COO
Cooney, Caroline B.
The Ransom of Mercy Carter. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2001. In 1704, in the English settlement
of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her
family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and
their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold
to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some
still hope to be ransomed.
YA COO
Cooper, James Fenimore.
The Deerslayer. New York :
Scribner, [1990]. Follows the adventures of the brave and
bold frontiersman, Natty Bumpo.
YA CUR
Curry, Jane Louise.
Dark Shade. New York : Margaret K.
McElderry, 1998. Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save
orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as
an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of Western
Pennsylvania.
YA DUR and PB 2 DUR
Durrant, Lynda.
Echohawk. New York : Clarion Books,
c1996. A twelve-year-old white boy, adopted and raised by
Mochicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730's, is
sent with his younger brother to an English settlement for
schooling.
YA DUR and PB 2 DUR
Durrant, Lynda.
The Beaded Moccasins : The Story of Mary
Campbell. New York : Clarion, c1998. After being captured
by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as
a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old
Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.
YA FLE
Fleischman, Paul.
Saturnalia. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row,
c1990. In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a
Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier,
leads a productive and contented life as a printer's
apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some
connection with his Indian past.
YA FIE and PB 2 FIE
Field, Rachel.
Calico Bush. New York : Macmillan,
1987, c1966. In 1742, Marguerite left France with her
grandmother and uncle to seek a home in America. A year
later, 13-year-old Marguerite is alone in the world and a
"bound-out girl" on her way to Maine.
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YA HAR
Harrah, Marge.
My Brother, My Enemy. 1st ed. New York : Simon
& Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997. Determined to
avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert
Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of
wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
YA HUR
Hurst, Carol Otis.
A Killing in Plymouth Colony. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, 2003. In Plymouth Colony in the 1630s,
John continually disappoints his father, Governor William
Bradford, during a difficult time as the colony faces its
first murder and subsequent trial.
YA KEE
Keehn, Sally M.
I am Regina. Dell, 1993,c1991. In 1755,
10-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians & struggles to
hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up &
starts to become an Indian.
YA KEE
Keehn, Sally M.
I am Regina. New York : Philomel Books, c1991.
In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old
Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and
she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life
as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to
become Indian herself.
YA KIR
Kirkpatrick, Katherine.
Trouble's Daughter : The Story of
Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive. New York : Delacorte
Press, c1998. When her family is massacred by Lenape
Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne
Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.
YA LAI
Laird, Marnie.
Water Rat. 1st ed. : Winslow Press,
1998. Fourteen-year-old Matt, a crippled orphan, runs away
from the cruel beatings he has endured from the owner of the
tavern where he has lived since his father's death, only to
come face to face with a band of pirates.
YA LAS
Lasky, Kathryn.
Beyond the Burning Time. New York: Scholastic,
1994. When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of
witchcraft surface in her small New England village,
twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from
execution.
YA LUH
Luhrmann, Winifred Bruce.
Only Brave Tomorrows. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, 1989. In 1675 fifteen-year-old Faith
comes from England to the colony of Massachusetts, where the
Indian uprising known as King Philip's War threatens to
destroy everything she holds dear.
YA PET and PB 2 PET
Petry, Ann (Lane).
Tituba of Salem Village. Trophy ed. New
York : HarperCollins, 1991. Tells how Tituba, a slave, was
sold in Barbados to a preacher bound for Boston and became
one of three women convicted at the beginning of the Salem
witch trials.
YA REE
Rees, Celia.
Witch Child. 1st Candlewick Press ed. Cambridge,
Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2001, c2000. 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.
YA REE
Rees, Celia.
Sorceress. 1st Candlewick Press ed. Cambridge, MA
: Candlewick Press, 2002. Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk
Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers,
uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of
her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English
healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with
the local Indians.
YA RIC
Richter, Conrad.
The Light in the Forest. New York,
: Knopf, 1953. After being raised as an Indian for eleven
years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler
is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to
long for the freedom of Indian life.
YA RIN
Rinaldi, Ann.
A Break with Charity : a Story About the Salem
Witch Trials. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, c1992. While waiting for a church meeting in
1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant,
recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that
tore her village apart in 1692.
YA RIN
Rinaldi, Ann.
The Color of Fire: a Novel. New York: Hyperion, 2005.
Phoebe, a slave in the Philipse household in colonial New York, must decide
on
the right course of action when her friend Cuffee is implicated
in a reputed
slave uprising.
YA SPE
Speare, Elizabeth George.
Calico Captive. [Boston] : Houghton
Mifflin, [c1957]. An Englishwoman, Miriam Willard, becomes
a captive during the French and Indian War in 1754. After a
harrowing march north to Montreal she discovers a city
filled with the intrigue of war.
YA STA
Stainer, M. L.
The Lyon's Cub. Circleville, NY :
Chicken Soup Press, c1998. Jessabel, one of the survivors
of the disappearance of the English settlers on Roanoke
Island in 1587, relates how her remaining companions live
with the Croatoan Indians and try to find the missing
colonists.
YA STA
Stainer, M. L.
The Lyon's Throne. Circleville, N.Y. :
Chicken Soup Press, c1999. After being rescued from a
pirate ship, returned to England, and imprisoned at Queen
Elizabeth's Court, Jess faces tests of loyalty to her Lumbee
husband and Roanoke Colony.
YA STA
Stainer, M. L.
The Lyon's Pride. Circleville, N.Y. :
Chicken Soup Press, 1998. When Eleanor Dare and others go
off in search of the English colonists from the Roanoke
colony, Jess and her family stay behind, building a new life
with the Croatoan Indians and strengthening their
interconnection when Jess and her "unqua" husband have a
baby.
YA STA
Stainer, M. L.
The Lyon's Roar. Circleville, N.Y. :
Chicken Soup Press, c1997. Fourteen-year-old Jess relates
her sea voyage with other English families to Roanoke Island
in 1587, their attempt to make a permanent settlement, and
Jess's contact with the Croatoan Indians.
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