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FEVER 1793 By Laurie Halse Anderson

A yellow fever epidemic wipes out 10% of Philadelphia's population in three months. 16-year-old Matilda, separated from her sick mother, is forced to cope.

NIGHT JOURNEYS By Avi

In the spring of 1768, twelve-year-old Peter, living with his Quaker guardian near the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, joins in the search for two runaway indentured servants. (Brightwood and Forest Park)

WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN By James Lincoln and Christopher Collier

Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. She knows she is in triple danger: she's black, female, and free.

THE RANSOM OF MERCY CARTER By Caroline B. Cooney

Mercy and her family are captured by Mohawk Indians and forced to march to French Canada.

THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM THOMAS EMERSON By Barry Denenberg (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.

SATURNALIA by Paul Fleischman

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. (Liberty and Pine Point)

THE PRIMROSE WAY By Jackie French Koller

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.

THE KEEPING ROOM By Anna Myers

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. (Brightwood, East Spfld, Liberty)

BEYOND THE BURNING TIME By Kathryn Lasky

Mary's mother is accused of witchcraft; can Mary save her from execution?

JUST JANE: A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND CAUGHT IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION By William Lavender

Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.

FAWN By Robert Newton Peck

At the time of the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758, a Native American boy, the son of a Jesuit priest, observes the savagery of the French, English, and Indians, and tries to save his father from what could be a terrible fate.

WITCH CHILD By Celia Rees

In the pages of her secret journal, Mary Nuttall reveals what it was like to be a witch among the Puritans in Massachusetts, where differences are dangerous and rumors can kill, where she must hide her heritage as a healer and pagan.

GUNS FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON: A STORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION By Seymour Reit

Frustrated with life under seige 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.

A STITCH IN TIME By Ann Rinaldi

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.

TIME ENOUGH FOR DRUMS By Ann Rinaldi

Sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British king.

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