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The silent stranger

a Kaya mystery
2005
In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger arouses suspicion in Kaya's village.

You wouldn't want to be an 18th-century British convict!

a trip to Australia you'd rather not take
2007
Colorful illustrations describe what life would be like as a convict sentenced to serve time in a penal colony in Australia during the eighteenth century.

Treasure Island

a young reader's edition of the classic adventure
2002

Fort Mose

and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in Colonial America
2010
Tells the story of Fort Mose, the first free African settlement to legally exist in what is now the United States, established in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1738, and includes over forty images, as well as notes on the uncovering of the fort.

Everybody's revolution

a new look at the people who won America's freedom
2006
Explores the variety of people who participated in the Revolutionary War, including immigrants from all over the world, African-Americans, Native Americans, and women.

Winter at Valley Forge

2006
A short history of the Continental Army's desperate winter at Valley Forge in 1777, written in graphic novel format, focusing on the events leading up to that fateful encampment and Washington's struggle to keep his army together.

Cat among the pigeons

2008
Catherine "Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, rallies her friends to try to save Pedro from the clutches of Mr. Hawkins, a slavemaster who considers Pedro his property.

The diamond of Drury Lane

2008
Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.

The Revolutionary soldier, 1775-1783

an illustrated sourcebook of authentic details about everyday life for Revolutionary War soldiers
1993
An illustrated sourcebook of authentic details about everyday life for Revolutionary War soldiers.

Life of a slave on a Southern plantation

1999
Details the living conditions of plantation slaves, examining house, field and artisan work; food and clothing; marriage; separation; resistance; leisure activities; and old age.

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