Colonial+America

Ellis, Joseph J. __**American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson**.__ 1998. Provides a look at the life and times of Thomas Jefferson focusing on how he lived his life and his personal feelings towards things in his life. **Lexile:**

Cooper, James Fenimore. **__Last of the Mohicans.__** Hawkeye and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. **Lexile: 1350**

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. **__The Scarlet Letter__**. Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes. **Lexile: 410.**

Clapp, Patricia C. **__Witches’ Children__**. During a long winter in 1692, ten young girls begin having visions and the village elders conclude that they are possessed. This leads to the Salem witch-hunt, and an unexpected ending. **Lexile: 990.**