A Stolen Life
10 best books like A Stolen Life (Jane Louise Curry): Everyday Life in Early America, Beyond the Burning Time, As Far As I Can See, I Am Regina, Hope's Crossing, Trouble's Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive, The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell, The Ransom of Mercy Carter, Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson, The Primrose Way
| Author | David Freeman Hawke |
| ISBN | 0060912510 |
I am really fed up with anti-blackness and ahistorical white-centered nonsense in books that are supposed to be historical non-fiction. This book could have been really interesting. It also should have been named "Everyday Life for White Colonialists in Early America." And I wouldn't have had a problem...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590473328 |
They say something very strange is happening to some of the people of Salem. That some of the young girls have become - troubled. And the fear is beginning to spread. Mary and her mother don't hear about the rumors right away. They don't know that many of the villagers believe that some of Mary's friends...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0439425174 |
The story takes place in 1856, where Meg and her parents live in St. Louis. Her mother takes ill, and her father worries that it might be a cholera plague, so he has Meg and her young brother taken out west to friends in Kansas. This forms one of the themes of the book. The other theme is slavery, where Meg and...
| Author | Sally M. Keehn |
| ISBN | 0698119207 |
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she...
| Author | Joan Elizabeth Goodman |
| ISBN | 0698118073 |
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
| Author | Katherine Kirkpatrick |
| ISBN | 0440415799 |
I like stories about culture. It's why Clan of the Cave Bear is one of my favorite books. When I was in sixth grade I discovered the book Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski. I read the book several times. I loved that book. As a result throughout my 7th grade year at school, I read what I...
| Author | Lynda Durrant |
| ISBN | 0440415918 |
Based on the true story of Mary Campbell, a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by the Delaware tribe in 1759 Pennsylvania, this story reveals Mary's refusal to adopt any of the Delaware ways, but then she pretends to learn until her chance to escape comes. When that chance to leave is at hand, Mary realizes she...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0440227755 |
Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together...
| Author | Sheila Solomon Klass |
In the 1700s, women’s responsibilities were primarily child rearing and household duties. But Deborah Sampson wanted more from life. She wanted to read, to travel—and to fight for her country’s independence. When the colonies went to war with the British in 1775, Deborah was intent on being...
| Author | Jackie French Koller |
Living in a rough Puritan missionary settlement that borders an Indian village, sixteen-year-old Rebekah is forced to choose between two cultures when she falls in love with a defiant Pawtucket medicine man. “Issues about separation of church and state, the scandalous idea of thinking for oneself,...
| Author | Michael Dorris |
| ISBN | 0078681357 |
Visually impaired Walnut cannot earn his adult name the same way other boys do, by hitting a target with a bow and arrow. With his highly developed other senses, however, he earns a new name: Sees Behind Trees. "Dorris takes on some meaty existential issues here; he does so with grace, bighearted empathy,...
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0142301426 |
From one of Canada's best loved children's writers comes the enthralling tale of a brave young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. It is 1777 and Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the horrors of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged for being a British spy. When she finds a message...
| Author | Ann Turnbull |
| ISBN | 0763631442 |
Star-crossed young lovers triumph over religious intolerance, social disgrace and epic historical events in this thrilling sequel
London, 1665. Cast out by his father for becoming a Quaker, the newly independent Will travels from the countryside to London to earn a living. He and his beloved...
| Author | Jane Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0141303158 |
خیلی قشنگ بود، دوستش داشتم.
فکر میکردم پایان خوشش اذیتم بکنه، اما نکرد. .
| Author | Kathryn Winter |
| ISBN | 0439099048 |
In this semi-autobiographical novel, eight-year-old Katarina is bewildered by the hullabaloo surrounding her Jewish heritage in World War II at Slovakia. Raised by her unobservant aunt Lena, Katarina knows next to nothing about her supposed religion and heritage. In public school, she's a Jew....
Tituba, the minister's slave, gazed into the stone watering trough. She did not see her own reflection. Instead, she saw a vision of herself, surrounded by angry people. The people were staring at her. Their faces showed fear. That was several years ago. It is now 1692, and there is strange talk in Salem...
| Author | L.M. Elliott |
| ISBN | 0060744219 |
For thirteen–year–old Nathaniel, an indentured servant in colonial Virginia, life is hard. Though things improve with the help of a kind master named Basil–who shares music, books, and philosophies on equality–around him the climate is heating up. It's 1775 and colonists are enraged by...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0152054650 |
In 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, Mamanatowic, is just eleven; but in spite of her age, this astute young...
Set against well-known historical events, this new Young Adult romance series centers on a hope chest that passes through the lives of various young women who respond to the challenges of their day. Sixteen-year-old Katherine rescues a handsome young stranger who is fleeing from the loyalists, and...
| Author | Tony Williams |
| ISBN | 1402245661 |
This book needs maps!!!! Why do so many people who write historical accounts fail to include maps in their books? My reason for reading the book is that we will be moving to the Jamestown area shortly and I wanted to learn more about the colony. I feel that I learned more about some of the men who became Jamestown's...
| Author | Stephen Taylor |
| ISBN | 0393050858 |
What became of the castaways was stranger than fiction...and more than decent Englishmen could bear. In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0786818255 |
This is a somewhat harsh Ann Rinaldi book of an event that that most people probably have never even heard of. It's referred to as 'The Great Negro Plot' of 1741 in New York City.
This is at time decades before the colonies fought for their independence. It's a time when living conditions were still...
| Author | Daniel K. Richter |
| ISBN | 0674055802 |
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of...
| Author | Hernán Cortés |
| ISBN | 0300090943 |
Hernán Cortés’s Cartas de Relación, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés’s journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden’s English translation...
| Author | Ann Turner |
| ISBN | 0061370851 |
Truth or Lies?
Lidda knew, with a clarity that was like a candle in a dark room, that all had changed; something was loosed in the village—Devil or not—and they would pay for it, every last man, woman, and child.
Fourteen-year-old Lidda has always known she was different. She longs...
