Women in American History: Selected Young Adult Fiction in the Springfield Library

A Break with Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials Ann Rinaldi YPBK R

While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna recalls the accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

Witch Child Celia Rees YAFICT R

Witch trials told from the point of view of a young woman skilled in the practice of witchcraft.

The Ransom of Mercy Carter Caroline Cooney YAFICT C

In Deerfield in 1704, Mercy is captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies.

Wolf by the Ears Ann Rinaldi YPBK R

Harriet Hemings, rumored to be Thomas Jefferson's daughter, faces the choice of passing as white or staying a slave at Monticello.

19th Century

Sacajawea Joseph Bruchac YAFICT B

Story of the native woman who guided Lewis and Clark, told as fiction.

A Gathering of Days: a New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 Joan W. Blos JFIC B

A 14-year-old New Hampshire girl records such events as her father's remarriage and the death of her best friend.

Lyddie Katherine Paterson JPBK P

A feisty farm girl survives the dangers of the textile mills in 1840s Massachusetts.

Mine Eyes Have Seen Ann Rinaldi JPBK R

The daughter of anti-slavery crusader John Brown serves as lookout for the secret raid on Harper's Ferry.

Girl in Blue Ann Rinaldi YAFIC R

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army.

20th Century

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest Gaines YPBK G

Fictional narrative of the life of a woman born a slave, who lives to see the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

The Bread Givers Anzi Yezierska YPBK Y

In New York in the early 1900s, a Polish Jewish immigrant girl named Sarah struggles with her father, who strives to enforce his old-world values.

The Road Home Ellen Emerson White YPBK W

Leaving wartime Viet Nam after serving as a nurse, Rebecca faces a difficult adjustment.

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