BOOKS TO NOTE: EARLY AMERICA (Non-Fiction and Historical Fiction) (for various ages) – Stories of Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early U.S. Times
Of John Howland, a teen who came to the new world as an indentured servant on the Mayflower. He was rescued after falling overboard, then he helped find a place for the people on the ship to come ashore safely, then made a mark for himself in the Plymouth Colony.First British-American poet during Colonial Era.(for young readers)Although her fate remains a mystery, there is a historical novel featuring something of what could have happened to the mother of the first baby born in a British colony in America, as seen through something that could exist and handed down to her female descendants to the present time.A slave girl who became the first African-American poet during the Colonial era.A teenage boy gets caught up in the revolutionary happenings that involve Paul Revere.
TRADING THOMAS (a boy’s dying mother tells him of a dream in which he meets a strange girl. Soon he travels to Jamestown, VA, to live with his father, but his father has been killed. For some reason, the boy must go to with the natives where his father’s killer lives)
As the American Revolution started, some people living near Danbury, Connecticut found out that the British were coming to their area. Anyone who could warn people in neighboring areas, and get help to keep the British soldiers away. 16 year old Sybil Ludington got her horse and went on a ride through the night to warn neighbors. Based on a true story. For young readers.
A historical fiction account of how the oldest daughter of the U.S.’s second president, Martha (Patsy) Jefferson helped her father, what she did about his secret, and what she coped with in her own life, starting in her mid-teen years.
Other than causing the wrongful death of Alexander Hamilton, who was the character of Aaron Burr? A glimpse of him may be gotten from letters exchanged between him and his daughter. “What book shall I buy for her?” he wondered when she was nine years old… Of the Lewis and Clark 1803-04 expedition exploring the lands bought in the Louisiana Purchase.Told alternately from the viewpoints of Sacajawea (the young native guide) and one of the leaders of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Of the scientist-explorers who explored northern Louisiana and Hot Springs, Arkansas.A girl who lived in Barbados must travel to New England to live with relatives. The townspeople think she is strange. She becomes friends with a woman who lives on the edge of town, but the townspeople believe this woman is a witch, at this time when the Salem Witch Trials are happening.A boy is left in charge of a family cabin in the New England wilderness while his father goes to bring his mother and sister to their new home.What dangers will he face as he guards this new place he and his dad built?A Colonial Era girl becomes friends with a native girl in the new land. One day while celebrating with the natives, soldiers come to force the natives to go on what will be The Trail of Tears. Dressed as a native so she could take part in the ceremony, the Colonial girl is mistaken for a native. The soldiers don’t believe it when they are told she isn’t part of their community. Forced onto the trail, will the girl ever see her family again?!Classic historian and author David McCullough tells of pioneers who settled in the U.S.’s Northwest.
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