Annotations of the following historical novels can be found in the text of this paper.
Brady, Ester Wood.
Toliver’s Secret.
New York: Random House Inc.,1976.
Bulla, Clyde Robert.
A Lion to Guard Us
. Illus. Michele Chessare. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
Clapp, Patricia.
Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth
. New York: Lothrop,1968.
Clapp, Patricia.
The Tamarac Tree
. New York, NY.: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, 1986.
Collier, James Collier, and Collier, Christopher.
War Comes to Willy Freeman
. New York: Delacorte Press,1983.
Dalgliesh, Alice.
The Courage of Sarah Noble.
Illus. Leonard Weisgard. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1954.
Denenberg, Barry. When Will this Cruel War be
Over? : The Civil War Diary of
Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia,1864. (Dear America ; 1) New York, NY.: Scholastic, Inc.,1996.
Deuy, Kathleen.
Mary Alice Peale, Philadelphia,1777.
(American Diaries; #1) New York, NY.: Simon and Shuster,1996.
Duey, Kathleen.
Sarah Anne Hartford, Massachusetts,1961
. (American Diaries; #4) New York, NY.: Simon and Shuster,1996.
Fritz, Jean.
The Cabin Faced West
. Illus. Feodor Rojankovsky. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1958.
Gregory, Kristine.
The Winter of the Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,1777 to July 1778.
(Dear America ; 2) New York, NY.: Scholastic Inc.,1996.
Tripp, Valerie.
Happy Birthday, Felicity: A Springtime Story.
(American Girls Collection) Illus. Dan Anderson. New York, NY.: Scholastic Inc., 1991.
Porter, Connie.
Meet Addy: An American Girl
(American Girls Collection) Illus. Melodye Rosales. New York, NY.: Scholastic Inc., 1994.
Hurmence, Belinda.
Tancy
. New York, NY.: Clarion Books, 1984.
Hurmence, Belinda.
A Girl Called Boy.
New York, NY.: Carion Books, 1982.
O’Dell, Scott.
Sarah Bishop
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
DeClue, Denise.
Women Shaping History.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Raintree publishers Limited,1979.
This juvenile literature offers biographies of women who were prominent in the women’s movements from colonial times to present.
Egger-Bovet, Howard and Smith-Baranzini, Marlene.
Brown Paper School. USKids History: Book of the American Revolution.
Illus. Bill Sanchez. Boston: Little, Brown and Company,1994.
Discusses the events leading up to the Revolutionary War and life in the colonies during that time.
Egger-Bovet, Howard and Smith-Baranzini, Marlene.
Brown Paper School. USKids History: Book of the American Colonies.
Illus. D.J. Simison. Boston: Little, Brown and Company,1996.
Discusses the growth of the American colonies.
Hakim, Joy.
A History of Us. From Colonies to Country. Book Three
. New York, NY.: Oxford University Press, 1993.
An excellent series containing 10 volumes. Volume three contains information about a variety of Americans during the colonial period to the revolution.
Warner, John F.
Colonial American Home Life.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1993.
This is the second book in a series that describes the social life and customs of the people in the American colonies.