Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
10 best books like Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold (Ann Rinaldi): Beyond the Burning Time, Of Two Minds, Queen's Own Fool, No Shame, No Fear, The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777, North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad, The Year of the Hangman, Sarah Bishop, Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution, Hope's Crossing
| 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 | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0921368445 |
The complex plot follows the adventures of Lenora, a headstrong princess with the power to make anything she imagines real, and Coren, the shy prince chosen by her parents to be her husband. Trapped in a strange land and stripped of their powers (Coren had been able to read the thoughts not only of humans,...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0698119185 |
Called La Jardiniere, a resourceful and clever jester to the queen's court, Nicola was a most unlikely person to end up "fool" and friend to Mary, Queen of Scots. But Nicola isn't an ordinary comedian clowning before the court; her sharp tongue is rare amongst the fawning nobles. As fate takes Mary from...
| Author | Ann Turnbull |
| ISBN | 0763631906 |
A young Quaker girl and the son of a wealthy merchant face intolerance and persecution in this gripping historical novel that evokes the passion and idealism of young love.
"Don't cry. We won't be parted. I promise."
It is 1662, and England is reeling from the aftereffects of civil...
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0590226533 |
This is a great fictional account of the winter George Washington’s army spent in Valley Forge. I quite enjoyed it.
Warning: There are a few things that might make some readers squeamish, including the severing of limbs in wartime surgeries.
Content:
* alcohol
* profanity
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It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that helps fugitive slaves escape to freedom in Canada. Lucy believes in what she and her family do to help the fugitives, even if it means putting herself...
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0142400785 |
In 1776, the rebellion of the American colonies against British rule was crushed. Now, in 1777-the year of the hangman-George Washington is awaiting execution, Benjamin Franklin's banned rebel newspaper, Liberty Tree, has gone underground, and young ne'er-do-well Creighton Brown, a fifteen-year-old...
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0590446517 |
Sarah Bishop is a young girl who has no interest in the coming American Revolutionary War. However, this is not how her father and her brother feel. Her father is a Loyalist, siding with the British, and her brother, is a Patriot. Her brother leaves the house, and soon, her father is tarred and feathered....
| Author | William Lavender |
| ISBN | 0152054723 |
When Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she finds herself in the middle of a heated war--a war not only between her former country and her new home but one between the members of her own family, whose loyalties are strongly divided in America's...
| 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 | 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 | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380775301 |
I'm giving this five stars, not for how I might read it now, but for how I read it in sixth grade.
Spencer? SWOON. Like, five-stars swoonerific. Be still my eleven-year-old heart.
Seeing this book also makes me think I need to start laying off making fun of the Twilight tweens. As far as...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0688093655 |
"This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance....15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West Virginia. Only Miss Lucy, their landlord and neighbor, seems welcoming....There's...
| 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 | Seymour Reit |
| ISBN | 0152164359 |
This is a decent little book - a quick read at 140 pages - about a group of heroic men, led by Commander Knox of the Continental Army, who faced many challenges in moving heavy cannon from Ft. Ticonderoga, NY, down the Hudson, and east across the Berkshire Mountains and all of Massachusetts to Boston, at...
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 | Lora Innes |
| ISBN | 1613770316 |
17-year-old Beatrice Whaley and her wildly vivid dreams about the American Revolution are back -- much to her dismay! After barely surviving a battle against the British Army in the first volume, she's relieved to find herself safely in the 21st century again. Now, she's determined to forget about...
| Author | Pat Raccio Hughes |
| ISBN | 0670012076 |
On July 4th, 1777, Jake Mallory and his friends are celebrating their new nation's independence in a small coastal town in Connecticut. Fourteen-yearold Jake wants nothing more than to get out from under the strict thumb of his father and see some adventure. But he learns too late that he must be careful...
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 | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0590313509 |
Barry Denenberg’s purpose of writing The Journal of William Thomas Emerson is to show what the experiences leading up to the Revolutionary war were like through a young Boston colonists perspective. Throughout the story, William Thomas Emerson a young man who was taken in by Mrs.Thompson and Mr.Wilson...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0140383204 |
It was only well over midway through Protecting Marie that I realized that I had read this book as a young teenager, and I had loved it then as well. This is an excellent book, convincingly written, that will resound with young and old readers alike. Through Fanny, the twelve-year-old main character,...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0553804286 |
When Martha Dandridge Custis marries her second husband, George, she never suspects that the soft-spoken Virginia planter is destined to command the founding of a nation--or that she is to be Lady Washington, the woman at the first President's side. Only a select inner circle of women will know the...
