Revolutionary War

Avi - The Fighting Ground (157 pages) Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.

Beatty, John Louis - Who Comes to King's Mountain? (287 pages) 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 (409 pages) Johnny Fraser, the son of Scottish immigrants now living in North Carolina, goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and has adventures on both sides of the Atlantic.

Brady, Ester Wood - Toliver’s Secret (166 pages) During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots.

Clapp, Patricia - I’m Deborah Sampson (176 pages) Tells the experiences of Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution.

Collier, James Lincoln –

• Jump ship to freedom (198 pages) In 1787 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.
• My Brother Sam is Dead (216 pages) 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.
• War Comes to Willy Freeman (178 pages) A free 13-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.

DeFord, Deborah - An Enemy Among Them (203 pages) A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German.

Denenberg, Barry - The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War Patriot (156 pages) Part of My name is America series. 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.

Duey, Kathleen - Mary Alice Peale, Philadelphia, 1777 (141 pages) Part of the American diaries series. When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army.

Edwards, Sally - George Midgett's War (138 pages) The residents of an island on North Carolina's Outer Banks are unconcerned about the war for independence until an incident causes a fourteen- year-old and his father to set out for Valley Forge with supplies for Washington's army.

Felder, Deborah G. - Ride of Courage: The Story of a Spirited Arabian Horse and the Daring Girl Who Rides Him (128 pages) The year is 1781. Molly Randall of Yorktown, Virginia, must warn the patriots that the Redcoats are advancing. Does she have the courage to ride Sultan, the powerful Arabian horse?

Forbes, Esther - Johnny Tremain (256 pages) Newbery Medal winner. A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent passionate times in Boston just after the Revolutionary War. Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with James Otis, John Hancock, and John and Samuel Adams in the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington; and finally, a touching resolution of Johnny's personal life.

Fritz, Jean - Early Thunder (255 pages) Events rapidly transpiring in Salem, Massachusetts in 1774-1775 force 14-year-old Daniel West to re-examine his loyalties, and finally, to change from Tory to Whig.

Goodman, Joan E. - Hope's Crossing (212 pages) Tories in search of plunder and ransom bring terror to Hope Wake-man's Connecticut home. The family is defenseless now that Father is away in the army, and they can only watch as Noah Thomas and his crew strip the house of treasured belongings. Before she even realizes what is happening, Hope finds herself a captive and a slave to Thomas's ill-tempered wife.

Gregory, Kristiana –

• Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary (109 pages) Part of the My America series. In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
• The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart (173 pages) Part of the Dear America series. 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.

Haugaard, Erik Christian - A Boy's Will (41 pages) Patrick defies his loving grandfather by warning John Paul Jones, of the American fleet, about an English ambush.

Hoobler, Dorothy - The Sign Painter’s Secret (52 pages) When the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, a young Annie MacDougal finds a way to help General Washington’s troops at Valley Forge.

Keehn, Sally M. - Moon of Two Dark horses (218 pages) At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast.

Lawson, Robert - Mr. Revere and I (152 pages) The life of the Revere family and the doings of the Sons of Liberty as told from the point of view of Paul Revere’s horse.

Lee, Beverly Haskell - The Secret of Van Rink's Cellar (174 pages) While searching for the ghost that haunts the house in which their mother is a maid and dressmaker for an English officer's wife, Sarah and Stephen become secretly involved in the Revolutionary War effort.

Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda - The Hollow Tree (208 pages) It is 1777, and 15-year-old Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the turmoil of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged for being a British spy. When she finds a secret message from Gideon, containing the names of Loyalist families to be protected by the King's soldiers, she decides to deliver it to the British general at Fort Ticonderoga. Thus begins an enthralling wilderness journey, where Phoebe is accompanied by a cat, a bear cub, and Jem Morrissay, a young Loyalist heading to British Canada himself!

Marko, Katherine - Away to Fundy Bay (145 pages) In 1775, thirteen-year-old Doone Ramsey flees to the Bay of Fundy side of Nova Scotia to escape the British press gangs and joins the rebels in the fight for independence from Great Britain.

Monjo, F. N. - A Namesake for Nathan: Being an Account of Captain Nathan Hale by His Twelve-year-old Sister, Joanna (127 pages) Joanna Hale recounts the events of 1776 as she and her family follow the activities of her brother Nathan in the Continental Army.

Myers, Anna - The Keeping Room (135 pages) Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their South Carolina home to fight in the Revolutionary War, thirteen year-old Joey Kershaw finds all his resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and chooses the Kershaw house as his headquarters.

O'Dell, Scott - Sarah Bishop (184 pages) 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.

Osborne, Mary Pope - Revolutionary War on Wednesday (69 pages) The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to Colonial America. They arrive just as General George Washington is planning the crossing of the Delaware. Before they know it, Jack and Annie are in a boat with the Father of Our Country as history is made!

Pryor, Bonnie –

• Thomas (150 pages) 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.
• Thomas in Danger (170 pages) 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.

Reit, Seymour - Guns for General Washington (98 pages) 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.

Sweetzer, Anna Leah – Treason Stops at Oyster Bay (92 pages) (Mysteries in Time series) When the British seize control of Long Island in 1776, the Townsend family is forced to play host to British troops, and teenaged Sally is torn between loyalty to the rebels and a handsome British colonel.

Van Leeuwen, Jean –

• Hannah of Fairfield (87 pages) 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.
• Hannah's Helping Hands (88 pages) 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.
Woodruff, Elvira - George Washington’s Socks (166 pages) In the midst of a backyard campout, five children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.