The+American+Revolution

Forbes, Esther. **__Johnny Tremain__**. After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. **Lexile: 840.**

Collier, James Lincoln. __**My Brother Sam is Dead**__. Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. __**Lexile: 770**__.

Avi. __**The Fighting Ground**__. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. __**Lexile: 580.**__

McCullough, David. __**John Adams.**__ Presents the life-journey of John Adams much of it based on a vast collection of Adams family letters which focuses on his political career, marriage, friendship with Thomas Jefferson, and his presidency. **Lexile:**

Young, Alfred F. **__Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier__**. A biography of Deborah Sampson who disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtliff to fight in the American Revolution. Examines her early life an indentured servant, her young adulthood as a weaver and teacher, and her military career in the light infantry. Also explores her postwar life as a wife and mother and her collaboration with Herman Mann on a book and lecture tour. Interest Level: YA – Adult. **Lexile:**

Carter, Jimmy. **__The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War__.** When newlyweds Ethan and Epsey Pratt move from Philadelphia to a settlement in Georgia, they find themselves drawn into the war despite all their best efforts. Interest Level: YA-Adult. Lexile:

Collier, James Lincoln. **__War Comes to Willy Freeman__**. A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears. Interest Level: Gr. 6-8. **Lexile: 800.**

Lavender, William. **__Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the American Revolution__**. Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence. Interest Level: Gr. 7-12. **Lexile: 740.**

Fast, Howard. **__April Morning__**. Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper relates the events he witnessed in Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Interest Level: YA-Adult. **Lexile: 1050**.

Anderson, Laurie Halse. **__Chains__**. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual. Series: Seeds of America: 1. Interest Level: Gr. 6-9. **Lexile 780.**

Anderson, Laurie Halse. **__Forge__**. 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. Series: Seeds of America: 2. Interest Level: Gr. 6-9. **Lexile: 820.**