The Ransom of Mercy Carter
10 best books like The Ransom of Mercy Carter (Caroline B. Cooney): Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846, Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story, Anna of Byzantium, Under a War-Torn Sky, Spring Pearl: The Last Flower, I Am Regina, Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution, Hope's Crossing, Trouble's Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive, The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0439216001 |
Grade level :5.7
Genre : Historical fiction
This My Name is America is part of the Dear America book series. Each part of the series is fashioned to be a fictional journal based off of real historical events and people. Most books from this series I have seen have the characters as children,...
| Author | S.D. Nelson |
| ISBN | 0810983990 |
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history. From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York City and Europe with...
| Author | Tracy Barrett |
| ISBN | 0440415365 |
Anna Comnena has every reason to feel entitled. She's a princess, her father's firstborn and his chosen successor. Someday she expects to sit on the throne and rule the vast Byzantine Empire. So the birth of a baby brother doesn't perturb her. Nor do the "barbarians" from foreign lands, who think only...
| Author | L.M. Elliott |
| ISBN | 0786817534 |
When Henry Forester is shot down during a bombing run over France, the World War II pilot finds himself trapped behind enemy lines. In constant danger of discovery by German soldiers, Henry begins a remarkable journey to freedom. Relying on the kindness of strangers, Henry moves from town to town--traveling...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 1584855193 |
After the deaths of her parents, 12-year-old Chou Spring Pearl is taken into the home of her father's wealthy benefactor. Unlike most Cantonese girls, Spring Pearl has learned to read and write, but she must now learn a new skill-how to survive in Master Sung's hostile household. While the Second Opium...
| 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 | 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 | 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...
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....
Molly Abraham is a kinchin mort: a ten-year-old thief trying not to starve on the London streets. But everything changes for Molly when she is sentenced to be transported to the American colonies. She becomes an indentured servant to a kind Jewish family in New York City, and Molly has it good. So why is...
| Author | Harriette Gillem Robinet |
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his brother, Gideon, have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth; their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty...
| Author | Mary Casanova |
| ISBN | 1584855185 |
I read this book when I was young; as a younger me I found it a practically mesmerizing insight into the life of royalty in times of monarchal Versaille and utterly enjoyed reading about a girl who suddenly finds herself diving into the palace's world and discovering whether and where she belongs. The...
| 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 | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590543199 |
This is the story of the time spent just before John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry from the preceptive of his 15 year old daughter, Annie. Annie and her sister-in-law spent several months at the Kennedy Farm where John Brown was stratigizing and assembling his men. Annie struggles with the love/hate...
| Author | Kathleen Ernst |
| ISBN | 1584858788 |
It's 1775, in the deep forests of North Carolina's Cape Fear River Valley, where thousands of Scottish immigrants settled in the mid-1700s, hoping to find a peaceful home after decades of political turmoil and poverty in Scotland. One of the immigrants is 12-year-old Elspeth Monro, an orphan who lives...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1584853417 |
I thought this was a fun creative book for young readers. It’s the type of book where the characters figure out the answer with some time before the end, and you’re waiting to finish the book to see how they make the truth come to light. It ends after and doesn’t do the whole boring after effect thing...
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 1584855975 |
Now that her older sister is married, twelve-year-old Neela Sen knows their mother will be looking for a husband for Neela. But Neela's heart is stirred more by the fiery talk she overhears about India's freedom struggle than it is by talk of marriage. When Neela's father goes to Calcutta to learn more...
