Mr. Wilson's American Revolution Fiction Books
November 10, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Arn HS
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. The Kentucky Trace; : A Novel of the American Revolution.
Fic Avi
Avi. The Fighting Ground. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
Fic Bea HS
Beatty, John Lewis. Who Comes to King's Mountain? Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided between Loyalist and rebel, must decide for himself which side he will follow.
Boyd, James. Drums.
Fic Cav HS
Cavanna, Betty. Ruffles and drums. Devoted to the revolutionary cause, sixteeen-year-old Sarah finds it difficult to accept the presence of a young British officer convalescing in their Concord house. Each of them is forced to weigh their love for each other against their love for their respective countries.
Fic Cav HS
Cavanna, Betty. A touch of magic. Set in Philadelphia, this novel chronicles the lives of some teen-agers during the Revolutionary War. The central figure is Hannah Trent, a quiet Quaker girl who falls in love with one of General Washington's spies.
Fic Cla HS
Clapp, Patricia. I'm Deborah Sampson : A Soldier in the War of the Revolution. Relates the experiences of the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution.
Fic Col HS
Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother Sam is Dead. Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Fic Col
Collier, James Lincoln. War Comes to Willy Freeman. A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
Fic Col
Collier, James Lincoln. The Winter Hero. Anxious to be a hero, a youong boy relates how he becomes involved in Shay's Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.
Fic Den
Denenberg, Barry. T he Journal of William Thomas Emerson : A Revolutionary War Patriot. William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.
Fic Dow
Downie, Mary Alice. Honor Bound. Members of a Loyalist family become separated when they flee Philadelphia for Canada following the Revolutionary War.
Fic Edm HS
Edmonds, Walter D. D rums along the Mohawk . Gilbert Martin and his young wife, Lana, struggle to survive along the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War.
Fic Edm HS
Edmonds, Walter D. In the Hands of the Senecas.
Fic Edm HS
Edmonds, Walter D. The Musket and the Cross: The Struggle of France and England for North America.
Fic Fas HS
Fast, Howard. The Hessian: A novel.
Fic Fas HS
Fast, Howard. The Proud and the Free.
Fic For
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Fic For
HS
Forman, James D. The Cow Neck Rebels. Two brothers march off to the Battle of Long Island, not a particularly important battle to the outcome of the Revolution but a decisive factor in the lives of the brothers.
Fic Goo
Goodman, Joan E. Hope's Crossing. When kidnapped by English Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope draws on every ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal.
FIc Gre
Gregory, Kristiana. The Winter of Red Snow : The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart. Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
Fic Hal HS
Hall, Marjory. The Other Girl. When the rest of her family moves to London, Polly remains behind in Philadelphia where the outbreak of the Revolutionary War brings about many changes in her life.
Fic Hop HS
Hopkins, Joseph G. E. The Price of Liberty. The third volume of the author's trilogy, the first of which is Patriot's Progress and the second of which is Retreat and Recall.
Fic Jon HS
Jones, Peter. Rebel in the Night. A young farmer becomes a soldier in the Revolutionary War and discovers other motives behind the movement for American liberation.
Fic Kan HS
Kantor, MacKinlay. Valley Forge: A Novel.
Fic Lan HS
Lancaster, Bruce. Guns in the Forest.
Fic Lan HS
Lancaster, Bruce. The Big Knives. The exploits and adventures of George Rogers Clark whose explorations opened the western frontier in North America.
Fic Mas HS
Mason, F. Van Wyck. Guns for Rebellion.
Fic O'De HS
O'Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop. Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the Wilderness.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. The rifle. A priceless, handcrafted rifle, carried throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
Fic Pry
Pryor, Bonnie. Thomas in Danger. Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an inn in Philadelphia where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the Iroquois.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. Cast Two Shadows : The American Revolution in the South. In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and riends and comes to understand the true nature of war.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. The Secret of Sarah Revere. Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. A Stitch in Time. Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwest Territory.
Fic Vin HS
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. The Virginia Exiles.
Fic Wal HS
Wallace, Mary. Blue Meadow.
