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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash young apprentice Johnny Tremain, injured in an accident that leaves him unable to practice his trade, becomes involved with Rab, a Boston printer, who draws Johnny with him into the events of the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes.
8) Chains
Author
Series
Seeds of America volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who...
9) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Travel two centuries back in time to the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown, Virginia. Cousins Patrick and Beth sneak through trenches and race across battlefields to warn General George Washington about a dangerous spy. The spy is stealing his secret plans and giving them to the British. Cannons roar and the ground shakes as the struggle reaches a climax. Washingtons ragtag soldiers are up against the most powerful army in the world....
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 22
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
12) The pox party
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
13) The rifle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1480L
Language
English
Description
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
14) Forge
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
WOULD YOU RISK EVERYTHING to be free? THE YOUNG SOLDIERS at Valley Forge are suffering from hunger, cold, and the threat of the British army. Their newly forged bonds of friendship might be enough to help them survive. But the chains of Curzon's past threaten to shackle him again. Surrounded by the fires of ignorance, mistrust, and greed, Curzon can't risk sharing his deadly secrets with anyone. Does he have the mettle to hold on to his freedom?...
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Description
When the Imagination Station sends time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth to a ship that is captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, they are befriended by James Forten, a free Black of Philadelphia, and help save the life of an imprisoned boy dying of scurvy. Includes a secret word puzzle.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 430L
Language
English
Description
In 1775, Penny and her friend Nick, a homeless orphan, find themselves amid the growing conflict in Massachusetts as the colonists prepare to revolt against the British military.
17) Sarah Bishop
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
The outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 brings drastic changes to Felicity's life in Williamsburg, affecting both her family and her friendship with Elizabeth.
19) Toliver's secret
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.
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