Colonial America

  • Beyond the Burning Time  by Kathryn Lasky (Scholastic 1994)  When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution. (Booklist - G7-12 ; PubWkly - A12+ ; SLJ - G5-9)
  • Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
  • Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth by Patricia Clapp
  • Dear America titles, here are two:  Journey to the New World, A : a diary of Remember Patience Whipple  by Kathryn Lasky (Dear America)(Scholastic 1996) Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World. [1620]
  • Emma's journal : the story of a Colonial girl  / by Marissa Moss. [Young American voices] From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal notes.
  • Encounter at Easton  / Avi. [sequel] In 1768, the doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a Pennsylvania town.
  • Enemy in the Fort  / by Sarah Masters Buckey. [American Girls] In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
  • Felicity takes a dare  / by Valerie Tripp. [American girls] All winter Felicity has waited to go to the Williamsburg town fair, but her foolhardy actions in trying to feed the race horses spoil the fun and teach her a lesson.
  • Felicity's surprise : a Christmas story  / by Valerie Tripp. [American girls] Christmas in Williamsburg means a dancing party at the Governor's Palace for Felicity, but her mother becomes very ill and cannot finish the special blue gown.
  • Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Horseback on the Boston Post Road, 1704  by Laurie Lawlor (American Sisters series)(Pocket 2000) As war with the French and Indians begins in 1704, Madame Sarah Kemble Knight is instructed to bring twin servant girls Hester and Philena on a perilous journey by horse from Boston to New Haven, Connecticut. When Madame Knight decides to take only one of the sisters, the other risks her life to follow, and the group of travelers must make their way through the menacing and hazardous wilderness.
  • I am Regina by Sally Keehn - French and Indian War Period
  • James Printer : A Novel of Rebellion  by Paul Samuel Jacobs (Scholastic 1997) Although he has lived and worked as a printer's apprentice with the Green family in Cambridge Massachusetts, for many years, James, a Nipmuck Indian, finds himself caught up in the events that lead to a horrible war.
  • Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a pilgrim boy : Plymouth, 1620  by Ann Rinaldi (My Name is America)(Scholastic 2000) A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth in 1620 and 1621. Massachusetts. Colonial.
  • My brother, my enemy  / Madge Harrah.  Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
  • Nancy's story, / Joan Lowery Nixon. [Young Americans] In 1765, twelve-year-old Nancy worries about effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother.
  • Night journeys  / Avi. In the spring of 1768, twelve-year-old Peter, living near the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, joins in the search for two unaway indentured servants.
  • Only Brave Tomorrows  by Winifred Bruce Luhrmann (Houghton 1989) In 1675 fifteen-year-old Faith comes from England to the colony of Massachusetts, where the Indian uprising known as King Philip's War threatens to destroy everything she holds dear.
  • Priscilla Foster : the story of a Salem girl  / by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler [Her story] Hannah hears Granny Priss recount her involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692 and the terrible consequences that occured when Granny Priss, as a young girl, joined Ann Putnam in accusing many innocent women of being witches.
  • Sarah Anne Hartford : Massachusetts, 1651  / by Kathleen Duey. [American diaries] Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.
  • Saturnalia  by Paul Fleischman (Harper 1990) In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six  years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past. Massachusetts.
  • Second daughter : the story of a slave girl  / Mildred Pitts Walter. Aissa, the teen-age fictional sister of Elizabeth Freeman, struggles against a system which declares that sheis property and that she is to remain silent.
  • Shadows in the glasshouse  / by Megan McDonald. [American girl] While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
  • Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare- French and Indian War Period
  • Standing in the light : the captive diary of CatherineCarey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763  / by Mary Pope Osborne. [Dear America] A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians
  • Summer MacCleary, Virginia, 1749  / by Kathleen Duey. [American diaries] While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her  innocence when her master's daughter accuses her of stealing.
  • The Courage of Sarah Noble  by Dagliesh Another Shore  by Nancy Bond.  A time travel story: present day teenager travels back in time to an 18th century French colony on Nova Scotia. While not "historical fiction" it does give a lot of detail about the life, clothes, attitudes, all from the POV of a modern teenage girl.
  • The Primrose Way by Jackie French Koller - 1630's Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • The Printer's Apprentice by Stephen Krensky (Delacorte 1995) In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government. (SLJ - G5-7)
  • The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney - French and Indian War
  • The Seekers  by Eilis Dillon (Scribner's 1986) Sixteen-year-old Edward sails with friends from England to the New World in 1632 and joins the colony founded by the Pilgrims at Plymouth, discovering the perils and hardships of colonial life. Massachusetts.
  • The Winter People  by Joseph Bruchac (Dial 2002) As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother  and sisters hostage. (Kirkus - A10+)
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - Witch Trials
  • Trouble's Daughter : The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian captive  by Katherine Kirkpatrick (Delacorte 1998) When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape. (Booklist - G5-8 ; PubWkly - A10-14 ; SLJ - G7+)
  • Trouble's daughter : the story of Susanna Hutchinson,Indian captive  / Katherine Kirkpatrick. When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.
  • Young Americans series by Joan Lowery Nixon - Colonial Virginia (there are four in the series)

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