United States Historical Fiction
Colonial Period (1609-1783)
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials
by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
JF FRAUSTINO, L.
| Twelve-year-old Deliverance writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch. (Dear America series) |
Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609
by Patricia Hermes
JF HERMES, P.
Nine-year-old Elizabeth Barker keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home. (My America series)
The Starving Time: Elizabeth's Diary, Book Two
by Patricia Hermes
JF HERMES, P.
Elizabeth Barker continues to write in her diary, as disease and a lack of food further plague the suffering settlers at Jamestown. (My America series)
Voyage to a Free Land, 1630
by Laurie Lawlor
JF LAWLOR, L.
Abigail Garrett and her younger sister, Hannah, cross the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in search of freedom from religious persecution. (American Sisters series)
Ann's Story, 1747
by Joan Lowery Nixon
JF NIXON, J.
Ann, a young girl in eighteenth century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed to study Latin or mathematics. (Young Americans, Colonial Williamsburg series)
Caesar's Story, 1759
by Joan Lowery Nixon
JF NIXON, J.
After having been a slave on Carter's Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future. (Young Americans, Colonial Williamsburg series)
Will's Story, 1771
by Joan Lowery Nixon
JF NIXON, J.
Will, the son of a Williamsburg gaoler, suspects that a captured runaway slave is planning to escape. Should he tell his father despite his own sympathy for the slave? (Young Americans, Colonial Williamsburg series)
Maria's Story, 1773
by Joan Lowery Nixon
JF NIXON, J.
| In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper. (Young Americans, Colonial Williamsburg series) |
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