1700-1800

1701

Captain Kidd's Cat by Robert Lawson (1956)
The "true and dolorous" story of Captain William Kidd, his final voyage, his incarceration in Newgate Prison and his trial and execution as told by Kidd's cat. (J LAWSON)

1701

The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai by Erik Christian Haugaard (1995)
A fourteen year old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord Asano's death. (Y HAUGAAR)

1704

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney (2001)
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. (Y COONEY)

1707

The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (1954)
Remembering her mother's words, an eight year old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family west to Connecticut. (J DALGLIE)

1711

Cecile: Gates of Gold by Mary Casanova (2002)
In 1711, twelve-year-old C'ecile 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. (J CASANOV)

1716

Under the Black Flag by Erik Christian Haugaard (1993)
Sailing from his home in Jamaica to England, fourteen year old William Bernard, the son of a plantation owner, is kidnapped by the infamous pirate Blackbeard, held for ransom and forced to become a cabin boy aboard the pirate ship, Queen Anne's Revenge. (Y HAUGAAR)

1717

The Pirate's Son by Geraldine McCaughrean (1998)
Left penniless in 18th century England, fourteen year old Nathan Gull and his sister
Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past. (Y MCCAUGH)

1718

The Man with the Silver Oar by Robin Moore (2002)
In 1718, fifteen-year-old Daniel leaves his guardian uncle's Quaker household to stowaway on a ship in pursuit of a pirate captain bent on raiding the coast of North America before returning to port in Hispaniola. (Y MOORE)

1732-1799

Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave by Ann Rinaldi (2002)
After serving Martha Washington for twenty years, Oney realizes that she will never be a part of General Washington's family at Mount Vernon. She must make a choice: does she stay where she is, comfortable with the family that she has known since she was born, or does she take liberty into her own hands and, like her father, become one of the Gone? (Y RINALDI)

1733

My Name is Not Angelica by Scott O'Dell (1989)
Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean Island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. (Y ODELL)

1735

The Printer's Apprentice by Stephen Krensky (1995)
In New York City, an apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government. (J KRENSKY)

1736

Charlie's House by Clyde Robert Bulla (1983)
A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early 18th century runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own. (J BULLA)

1736

The Lothian Run by Mollie Hunter (1970)
In Edinburgh, a lawyer's clerk finds himself involved in more than a routine smuggling affair. (J HUNTER)

1741

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin (2001)
In the mid-eighteenth century, an unsavory character and his simpleton son become involved in the lives of a wealthy English family when that family's eldest son is disinherited because of his love of music. (Y GAVIN)

1744

Another Shore by Nancy Bond (1988)
Seventeen year old Lyn working in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, suddenly finds herself transported back to 1744, when the French inhabitants are at war with England. (Y BOND)

1746

Hadder MacColl by Patricia Calvert (1985)
Fiercely proud and loyal to her Highland heritage, fifteen year old Hadder can't understand why her beloved older brother, after his return from schooling in Edinburgh, no longer seems to share her passionate belief in the Jacobite cause. (J CALVERT)

1746

The Royal Dirk by John & Patricia Beatty (1966)
When young Alan Macrae meets Bonnie Prince Charlie and helps him escape the English armies, it is only the beginning of his adventures. (J BEATTY)

1747

Ann's Story, 1747 by Joan Lowery Nixon (2000)
Ann, a young girl in 18th century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study Latin or mathematics. (J NIXON)

1750

The Drummer Boy by Leon Garfield (1969)
After the defeat of their regiment in France, a drummer boy and six other survivors struggle back to England and uncertain destinies. (J GARFIEL)

1750

Flame-Colored Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff (1986)
Twelve year old Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural community near the southern coast of England. (J SUTCLIF)

1750

Jack Holborn by Leon Garfield (1965)
Jack Holborn, is a stowaway on a pirate ship, and is led from the ship to the African jungle, from a nightmare slave-market auction to a trial in London-and in the end, to good fortune. (J GARFIELD)

1750

The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson (1975)
A thirteen year old boy describes the poverty and discontent of 18th century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives. (J PATERSO)

1752

Wayah of the Real People by William O. Steele (1964)
Wayah, a Cherokee boy from Choto leaves his wilderness home to go to Brafferton Hall, the school for Indian boys in the hopes that this would help his town gain the leadership of the Cherokee Nation. (J STEELE)

1753-1994

The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers (1994)
A family's 250 year history is followed from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field. (Y MYERS)

1754

Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare (1957)
When Miriam is captured in an Indian raid during the French and Indian War, she faces a harrowing march north, a life of slavery and a decision that will affect the rest of her life. (J SPEARE)

1755

I am Regina by Sally M. Keehn (1991)
As the French and Indian War begins, ten year old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in central Pennsylvania and must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name Tskinnak and learns a new way of life. (J KEEHN)

1756

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (1941)
When his father leaves to search for marauding Indians, ten year old Edward protects his mother and sister with an old Spanish gun. (J EDMONDS)

1758

A Stolen Life by Jane Louise Curry (1999)
In 1758, in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter. (J CURRY)

1759

The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell by Lynda Durrant (1998)
After being captured by a group of Delaware and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve year old Mary Campbell must travel west with them to Ohio. (Y DURRANT)

1759

Caesar's Story, 1759 by Joan Lowery Nixon (2000)
After having been a slave on Carter's Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future. (J NIXON)

1759

The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac (2002)
As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage. (J BRUCHAC)

1760

The Sea Robbers by Robert Kraske (1977)
When his older brother is mistaken for a doctor and kidnapped by pirates in colonial Massachusetts, fifteen year old Hugh determines to rescue him. (J KRASKE)

1763

Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan by Mary Pope Osborne (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. (J OSBORNE)

1765

King George's Head was Made of Lead by F.N. Monjo (1974)
The statue of King George III, erected in Battery Park after the repeal of the Stamp Tax, tells his version of the events leading to the American Revolution. (J MONJO)

1765

Nancy's Story, 1765 by Joan Lowery Nixon (2000)
Twelve year old Nancy worries about the effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother. (J NIXON)

1768

Encounter at Easton by Avi (1980)
The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid 18th century Pennsylvania town. A sequel to: Night Journeys. (J AVI)

1768

Night Journeys by Avi (1979)
Two indentured servants escape into Pennsylvania and receive help from an unexpected source. (J AVI)

1768

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1983)
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in 18th century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills. (J SPEARE)

1768 - 1771

Stowaway by Karen Hesse (2000)
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. (J HESSE)

1769

John Treegate's Musket by Leonard Wibberley (1959)
In 1769, just after his pro-Royalist father has sailed for England on business, 11 year old Peter Treegate of Boston unwittingly becomes involved in a dock murder. Fleeing arrest he takes refuge on an American cargo ship which is wrecked off the South Carolina coast. Peter is rescued by a Scotsman who, in 1775, helps him rejoin his father, now an embattled American patriot, ready to fight at Bunker Hill. (J WIBBERL)

1769

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky (2000)
In 1769, thirteen year old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. (J LASKY)

1770

The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi (1993)
Fourteen year old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770. (Y RINALDI)

1770

A Williamsburg Household by Joan Anderson (1988)
Focuses on events in the household of a white family and its black slaves in Colonial Williamsburg in the 18th century. (J ANDERSO)

1771

Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family by Ann Rinaldi (2003)
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother. (Y RINALDI)

1772

Melitte by Fatima Shaik (1997)
In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen year old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her. (Y SHAIK)

1773

Daughter of Liberty by Edna Boutwell (1967)
Amy and her doll survive a bombardment, carry out a dangerous mission and finally earn the praise of Paul Revere as true daughters of Liberty. (J BOUTWEL)

1773

The Hornet's Nest by Sally Watson (1968)
A Scottish brother and sister leave the Isle of Skye in 1773 when their decided opinions and private war against the British endanger their lives. They are sent to relations in Williamsburg, Virginia, where they again find themselves at the center of conflicting loyalties and high feelings. (J WATSON)

1773

Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young by Esther Forbes (1943)
A Bostonian silversmith's apprentice becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the Revolutionary War. (J FORBES)

1773

Joining the Boston Tea Party by Diane Stanley (2001)
With the help of their grandmother's hat, the twins journey back in time to the Boston Tea Party.
(J STANLEY)

1773

Maria's Story, 1773 by Joan Lowery Nixon (2001)
In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper. (J NIXON)

1773

Touchmark by Mildred Lawrence (1975)
An orphaned girl living in pre-Revolutionary Boston longs to be apprenticed to a pewterer. (J LAWRENC)

1774

Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss (1999)
From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. (J MOSS)

1774

The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War Patriot by Barry Denenberg (1998)
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. (J DENENBE)

1774

Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson by Ann Turner (2003)
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution. (J TURNER)

1774

Nabby Adams' Diary by Miriam Anne Bourne (1975)
A fictional diary of the second President's daughter detailing the ten year period of her life from 1774-1784. (J BOURNE)

1774 -1775

Meet Felicity: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp (1991)
In Williamsburg, nine year old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse which is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner. (J TRIPP) (other books in the series include Felicity Learns a Lesson: a School Story, Happy Birthday, Felicity:a Springtime Story, Felicity's Surprise: a Christmas Story, Felicity Saves the Day: a Summer Story and Changes for Felicity: a Winter Story. (J TRIPP)

1775

Adventure on the Wilderness Road, 1775 by Laurie Lawlor (1999)
Recounts a family journey from Tennessee to Daniel Boone's new settlement in Kentucky in 1775. (J LAWLOR)

1775

Early Thunder by Jean Fritz (1967)
Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-Revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists. (J FRITZ)

1775

Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution by Seymour Reit (1990)
Frustrated with life under siege in George Washington's army, nineteen year old Will Knox and his brother, Colonel Henry Knox, undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the dead of winter. (J REIT)

1775

Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson (1953)
An account of episodes in the career of Paul Revere as revealed by his horse, Scheherazade. (J LAWSON)

1775

The Mystery Candlestick by Jean Bothwell (1970)
During the summer of 1775, an eleven year old boy becomes involved in the espionage work of the Colonial underground. (J BOTHWEL)

1775

Peter Treegate's War by Leonard Wibberly (1960)
The adventures of Peter Treegate during and after the Battle of Bunker Hill. (J WIBBERL)

1775

Rabbits and Redcoats by Robert Newton Peck (1976)
In May 1775, two boys participate in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys and befriend a young British soldier. (J PECK)

1775

Sam, the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley (1969)
Sam and his father fight as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington.
(E-BEG BENCHLE)

1775

Son of an Earl--Sold for a Slave by Daniel B. Weems (1993)
After being kidnapped and sold as a bond servant in colonial America, fifteen year old James, the son of a Scottish earl, struggles with his identity and his loyalty to the Revolutionary cause. (Y WEEMS)

1775

Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady (1976)
During the Revolutionary War, a ten year old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. (J BRADY)

1775

Trail Through Danger by William O. Steele (1965)
Eleven year old Lafe is afraid the Cherokees will attack his hunting party or that the men in the party will find out that his father is helping the Indians. (J STEELE)

1776

The Boston Coffee Party by Doreen Rappaport (1988)
During the Revolutionary War, two young sisters help a group of Boston women get coffee from a greedy merchant. (E-BEG RAPPAPO)

1776

Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary by Kristiana Gregory (2001)
In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776. (J GREGORY)

1776

George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff (1991)
In the midst of a backyard campout, ten year old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war. (J WOODRUF)

1776

Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution by William Lavender (2002)
Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence. (Y LAVENDE)

1776

Katie's Trunk by Ann Turner (1992)
Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home. (E TURNER)

1776

Lorenzo's Secret Mission by Lila and Rick Guzman (2001)
In 1776, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister leaves Texas and his father's new grave to carry a letter to the Virginia grandfather he has never known, and becomes involved with the struggle of the American Continental Army and its Spanish supporters. (Y GUZMAN)

1776

Mary Geddy's Day: A Day in Colonial Williamsburg by Kate Waters (1999)
Depicts what a day in the life of a young girl might have been like in colonial times. (J WATERS)

1776

Night Raiders Along the Cape by John F. Waters (1997)
When British raids off the coast of New England become more frequent, Asa must row through the night to warn his friends on the Massachusetts coast of an impending attack. (J WATERS)

1776

Poor Richard in France by F. N. Monjo (1973)
Benjamin Franklin's seven year old grandson recounts the events of his grandfather's visit to France seeking aid for the revolutionaries in America. (J MONJO)

1776

Samuel's Choice by Richard J. Berleth (1990)
Samuel, a fourteen year old slave in Brooklyn in 1776, faces a difficult choice when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his doorstep and only he can help the rebels. (J BERLETH)

1776

Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell (1980)
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. (J ODELL)

1777

The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac (1998)
In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a memorable meeting. (J BRUCHAC)

1777

Hannah of Fairfield by Jean Van Leeuwen (1999)
For almost nine year old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small-from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War. (J VAN-LEE)

1777

The Hollow Tree by Janet Lunn (1997)
Phoebe, age 15, sets off to deliver a message to the British General at Ft. Ticonderoga. (Y LUNN)

1777

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (1974)
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolutionary War when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. (J COLLIER)

1777

Rebecca's War by Ann Finlayson (1972)
Left in charge of her brother and sister in occupied Philadelphia, fourteen year old Rebecca's life is complicated further when two British soldiers are billeted in her house. (J FINLAYS)

1777

Saratoga Secret by Betsy Sterman (1998)
As General Burgoyne and his British troops invade the Upper Hudson River Valley, sixteen year old Amity must carry a message to the Continental army to give warning of an impending attack. (J STERMAN)

1777

We Are Patriots by Kristiana Gregory (2002)
In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes. (J GREGORY)

1777

The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart by Kristiana Gregory (1996)
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. (J GREGORY)

1777

The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood (2002)
In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history. (Y BLACKWO)

1777

Year of the Sevens: 1777 by Mary Z. Holmes (1992)
In 1777, thirteen year old Polly and her family face great danger after they move to the Kentucky frontier. (J HOLMES)

1778

The 18 Penny Goose by Sally M. Walker (1998)
Eight year old Letty attempts to save her pet goose from marauding British soldiers in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. (E-BEG WALKER)

1778

The Fighting Ground by Avi (1984)
Thirteen year old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. (J AVI)

1778

Finishing Becca: A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold by Ann Rinaldi (1994)
Fourteen year old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War. (Y RINALDI)

1778

Hope's Crossing by Joan Elizabeth Goodman (1998)
During the Revolutionary War, thirteen year old Hope, seized by the band of Tories who attack her Connecticut home, finds herself enslaved in a Tory household on Long Island and uses all her resources to escape and make her way home. (J GOODMAN)

1778

Thomas by Bonnie Pryor (1998)
In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven year old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia. (J PRYOR)

1778

War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (1983)
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. (J COLLIER)

1778-1784

Redcoats and Petticoats by Katherine Kirkpatrick (1999)
Members of a family in the village of Setauket on Long Island are displaced by the Redcoats and serve as spies for the Revolutionary Army of George Washington. (J KIRKPAT)

1779

Hannah's Helping Hands by Jean Van Leeuwen (1999)
In 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah and her family try to maintain a sense of normalcy as the Revolutionary War rages around them, threatening to destroy their way of life. Sequel to: Hannah of Fairfield. (J VAN-LEE)

1779

Summer of the Burning by Frances Riker Duncombe (1976)
After their house is burned down by the British and their mother dies in childbirth, a young girl finds herself responsible for keeping her younger brothers and sisters together and somehow rebuilding their home. (J DUNCOMB)

1779

Thomas in Danger by Bonnie Pryor (1999)
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. Sequel to: Thomas. (J PRYOR)

1780

The Bloody Country by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (1976)
In the mid 18th century, a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in a property conflict between the two states. (J COLLIER)

1780

Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi (1998)
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen year old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war. (Y RINALDI)

1780

Hannah's Winter of Hope by Jean Van Leeuwen (2000)
In 1780 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah worries about her brother Ben, a colonial soldier being held prisoner by the British, and joins her family in rebuilding their home and preparing for Ben's homecoming. Sequel to: Hannah's Helping Hands. (J VAN-LEE)

1780

The Keeping Room by Anna Myers (1997)
Left in charge of the family by his father who joins the Revolutionary War effort, thirteen year old Joey undergoes such great changes that he fears may be betraying his beloved parent. (J MYERS)

1780

The Secret of Van Rink's Cellar by Beverly Haskell Lee (1979)
While searching for the ghost that haunts the house in which their mother is a dressmaker for an English officer's wife, Sarah and Stephen becomes secretly involved in the Revolutionary War effort. (J LEE)

1780

Who Comes to King's Mountain? by John and Patricia Beatty (1975)
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. (J BEATTY)

1781

Adam and the Golden Cock by Alice Dalgliesh (1959)
When French troops under Rochambeau camp near a young boy's town in Connecticut, the boy makes the acquaintance of a young French soldier and is faced with a questionable relationship with a friend whose father is a Tory. (J DALGLIE)

1781

Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry by Lynda Durrant (2000)
In 1781, twelve year old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution. (J DURRANT)

1781

A Message for General Washington by Vivian Schurfranz (1998)
Twelve year old Hannah accepts the challenge of sneaking behind enemy lines to deliver a message to General Washington which will result in the British surrender at Yorktown. (J SCHURFR)

1781

A Ride Into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick by Ann Rinaldi (1991)
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War Camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. (Y RINALDI)

1781

Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl by Mildred Pitts Walter (1996) In late 18th century Massachusetts, Aissa, the fictional younger daughter of Elizabeth Freeman, relates how her sister gains freedom for herself and her family by bringing suit against their owner in court. (Y WALTER)

1783

Captain Grey by Avi (1977)
Following the Revolution, an eleven year old boy becomes the captive of a ruthless man who has set up his own "nation," supported by piracy, on a remote part of the New Jersey coast. (J AVI)

1783

Charlotte by Janet Lunn (1998)
Charlotte defies her father and says goodbye to her cousin's family, loyalists who are moving to Nova Scotia. Disowned by her father, she makes the journey with them. (J LUNN)

1784

The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz (1958)
It takes a visit from George Washington to make Ann Hamilton, a pioneer girl tending a vegetable garden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, feel the challenge of her own times. (J FRITZ)

1784

Wolf Hunt by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (1970)
Two hunters pursue a wolf that has begun raiding their flocks of sheep. (J EDMONDS)

1787

Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (1981)
A fourteen year old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the soldier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution. (J COLLIER)

1787

River of the West: The Story of the Boston Men by Armstrong Sperry (1952)
When young Robbie Haswell signed aboard the good ship Columbia he faced a ruthless captain as well as the dangers of uncharted seas in a voyage from Boston to China. (J SPERRY)

1788

A Stitch in Time by Ann Rinaldi (1994)
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 Northwestern Territory. First title in: The Quilt Trilogy. (Y RINALDI)

1789

Little House in the Highlands by Melissa Wiley (1999)
The childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. (J WILEY)

1790

The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron (1973)
Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in 19th century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon. (J CAMERON)

1790

Far Side of the Loch by Melissa Wiley (2000)
Continues the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of seven-year-old Martha Morse who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. (J WILEY)

1791

Down to the Bonny Glen by Melissa Wiley (2001)
In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager. (J WILEY)

1791

Escape From Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Bryant by Gerald & Loretta Hausman (2003)
In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat. (Y HAUSMAN)

1793

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (2000)
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen year old Matilda Cook learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is force to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. (Y ANDERSO)

1793

Path of the Pale Horse by Paul Fleischman (1983)
Lep, an apprentice to a doctor, helps his master take care of yellow fever victims in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793. (J FLEISCH)

1794

Anson's Way by Gary D. Schmidt (1999)
While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in 18th century Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master, a teacher devoted to teaching Irish children their forbidden language and culture, places him in conflict with the law of King George II. (Y SCHMIDT)

1797

Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship by David Weitzman (1997)
A fictionalized account of the design and construction of the U.S.S. Constitution, told through the eyes of a boy whose father is one of the ship's carpenters. (J WEITZMA)

1798

Witches' Sabbath by Alexander Cordell (1970)
During the Rebellion of 1798 a seventeen year old Irish boy must make sure that a rebel plot to capture an English hostage succeeds. (J CORDELL)