I Am Regina

10 best books like I Am Regina (Sally M. Keehn): Molly's Pilgrim, Bound for Oregon, Calico Captive, Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison, With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Who Is Frances Rain?, Hope's Crossing, The King's Shadow, Trouble's Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive

AuthorBarbara Cohen
ISBN0688162800
A modern Thanksgiving classic about an immigrant girl who comes to identify with the story of the Pilgrims, as she seeks religious freedom and a home in a new land.

As Molly nears her first Thanksgiving in the New World, she doesn't find much to be thankful for. Her classmates giggle at her Yiddish...
AuthorJean Van Leeuwen
ISBN0140383190

With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a two thousand mile trek to claim unchartered Oregon Territory. Crossing rough terrain and encountering hostile people, the Todds show their true pioneering spirit. But as winter draws near, will the...
AuthorElizabeth George Speare
ISBN0618150765
In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War.
It is a...
AuthorLois Lenski
ISBN0064461629
Civil rights and equality have made a lot of headway against racism in the last century.

"Well, duh," some might say.

"But there's still so far to go!" others might protest.

I personally grew up without any particularly scarring incidents of racism. Sure, I got made fun of...
AuthorKarleen Bradford
ISBN0439989795
When Mary's family sides with the British against the American rebels, they are branded traitors and forced to flee their home. All they have is what they can carry with them — and their determination and courage — when they head north toward Canada.
Along with other Loyalists they hope to start...
AuthorAnn Turner
ISBN0439153085
I really liked Prudence and her family. They were so sweet, and, though this is a historical novel, they felt real. Relatable. Plus Pru and her questions about the world kinda reminded me of me.

Another thing I really liked about this book is that Pru and her family are Loyalists or "Tories." It's...
AuthorMargaret Buffie
ISBN1554532094
In this 20th-anniverary edition of the novel by Margaret Buffie, it's going to be a long, hot summer for 15-year-old Lizzie. Normally a vacation at her grandmother's northern Manitoba cottage is the highlight of the year, but this summer the whole family is going along, including her new stepfather...
AuthorJoan Elizabeth Goodman
ISBN0698118073
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...
AuthorElizabeth Alder
ISBN0440220114
Evyn, a young Welsh serf, has dreamed all his life of becoming a storyteller. But in a cruel twist of fate, Evyn and his father suffer a brutal attack by a group of murderous ruffians. Evyn's tongue is cut off and his father is killed. Orphaned and unable to speak, Evyn assumes he is destined to a life of slavery....
AuthorKatherine Kirkpatrick
ISBN0440415799
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...
AuthorLynda Durrant
ISBN0440415918
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...
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0440227755
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...
AuthorJane Louise Curry
The year is 1758. Lively Jamesina's three older brothers, who are with the British Army in America, and her father and youngest brother, living in exile in France, have left her in the care of her grandfather and aunts and uncles in their clan's homeland on the coast of the Western Highlands of Scotland....
AuthorSheila 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...
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
ISBN0590742590
Well that was a waste of two hours. This book is really boring and pointless. "Hey, let's spend a whole book forshadowing an awesome love story, and have it end in nothing. And then that'll just be it." It was pointless. There was no reason to even write it. Why didn't she just write on a napkin, "Hey, this...
AuthorMichael Dorris
Set in an island in the Bahamas on the eve of Christopher Columbus's fateful landing in 1492, this story following the daily lives of two siblings, Morning Girl and Star Boy, providing a window into Taino culture.

This story is very gentle, and the writing is simple yet powerful. Told in alternating...
AuthorJoanna Higgins
ISBN1571317007
"French aristocrats in Early America? Quaker carpenters and housemaids? Slaves in the Northeast? I never knew, but Joanna Higgins brings to life their story through three very different girls who grow into courage, wisdom, tolerance, and friendship. Their story is exciting, touching, and so real...
AuthorJackie 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,...
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
This is a great book to learn about facts from long ago about baseball and how it changed. It shows what African American baseball players had to go through to get to where they are today. This book will teach you really interesting things you may not know about the past of baseball and how it has grown from...
AuthorSarah Masters Buckey
ISBN1584853069
4.5 stars. I loved this book. The only thing that would’ve made it better was it being written for an older audience and even more facts to learn about the setting and the historical significance of the time and place.

The Percy family lives on a farm outside Fort Number 4 on the NH frontier. It’s...
AuthorJulie Johnston
ISBN0887766498
World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind her house.

One fateful summer day her brother...
AuthorKatherine Sturtevant
ISBN0374404585
The tale of a bookseller's daughter

Meg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress. She knows that someday she will have her pick of suitors, and that with the right husband she can continue in the book trade...
AuthorPatricia Clapp
ISBN0688109764
"Pish!" says Constance the day the "Mayflower" finally lands in America. Constance longs for her beloved London, but she does her share to help the pilgrim settles fight disease, tame the landscape, and befriend the natives. The village of Plymouth grows as more settlers arrive. Many of the young men...
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