Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the contributions of various women who helped the American colonies break free of British rule, including Abigail Adams, Peggy Arnold, Esther Reed, Deborah Sampson, Mercy Warren, And Phillis Wheatley.
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of documents that includes the First Continental Congress's "Declaration of Colonial Rights and Grievances," George Washington's "The Capture of Boston," Charles Cornwallis's "Surrender," and much more.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Chronicles George Washington's role in the American Revolution, from his appointment as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army to the British surrender at Yorktown and his famous farewell address.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Profiles eight American women who made significant contributions to the American Revolution, from sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode twice as far as Paul Revere to alert patriots; to Deborah Samson, who posed as a man to fight as a Continental Army soldier; to Phyllis Wheatley, a slave and first-published African-American author.
10) Countdown to independence: a revolution of ideas in England and her American colonies ; 1760-1776
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Examines the people and events both in the American colonies and in Great Britain between 1760 and 1776 that led to the American Revolution.
12) The deerslayer
Author
Series
Leatherstocking tales volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the brave and bold frontiersman, Natty Bumpo
13) 1776
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the American victory at Trenton.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a bitter cold day in January 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country’s greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America’s first action hero. But his thirst for recognition would ultimately be his undoing. Hopeless at political...
15) Bound for Canaan: the epic story of the underground railroad, America's first civil rights movement
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a historian's grasp of events and a novelist's instinct for story, Bordewich focuses on the 60 years leading up to the Civil War. Its beginnings can be traced to a band of abolitionists who created what became known as the Underground Railroad.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his...
17) April morning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the American Revolution, one battle changes a boy's life-and a nation's history-forever On April 18, 1775, musket shots ring out over Lexington, Massachusetts. As the sun rises over the battlefield, fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper stands among the outmatched patriots, facing a line of British troops. Determined to defend his home and prove his worth to his disapproving father, Cooper is about to embark on the most significant day of his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War in Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon.
A Newbery Honor book
A National Book Awards
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the wife of the first president of the United States, from her childhood in Virginia through her marriage to George Washington to her role in the American Revolution and the early years of the new country's history.
20) The beloved land
Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
She Yearned to Find a Home for Her Heart The tragic Acadian saga recounted in The Meeting Place, when the British drove the French from Nova Scotia, has followed two families over a score of years to the birth pangs of a new nation. The Song of Acadia has been one full of pathos but also of hope. Faith in God and family eventually have brought the Henri Robichauds to Louisiana, and finally, to a life of tranquility among the bayous. Back in Nova Scotia,...