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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar 'Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to...
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Series
Library of America volume 26-27
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook, bring alive the early 1700's when Americans, French, and Huron were fighting for the vast, uncharted wilderness.
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Listen & Live Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and a town roiling over the arrival of hundreds of Irish laborers, brought in on Jacky's Lorelei Lee.
7) Calico bush
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
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Sacketts volume 3
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Rival Indian tribes are threatening war and ruthless white men, hoping to exploit the tensions, kidnap a settler's beautiful daughter. Kin and Yance Sackett journey along the Warrior's Path to rescue the girl from her captors.
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English
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Noah Wilde is content with his isolated life hunting game for settlements and forts in the Allergheny Mountains; but when Noah is injured after saving a young woman who was attacked by Ottawa Indians, he begins to realize what he has been missing all the years he spent alone.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
14) Queen Anne's war
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English
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While living in Boston in 1710, eleven-year-old Will faces challenges brought on by Queen Anne's War as well as by school, friendships, and his development.
16) The prairie
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Series
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English
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Sequel to the Pioneers finds Natty going West and opposing the destruction of the land of animals.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Someone is setting fires in New York City ... In 1741, America is at war with Catholic Spain. Phoebe watches as her town erupts into mass hysteria when the whites in New York City accuse the black slaves of planning an uprising. With people implicating each other at every turn, Phoebe has to decide if she's willing to save her friend Cuffee from execution, or if her own conscience and quest for freedom will be singed by her indiscretions.
20) Mason & Dixon
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Henry Holt
Language
English
Description
The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship. By the author of Vineland.
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