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Paul Revere and the bell ringers

2003
Young Paul Revere and his friends form a club whose members ring the bells at Christ Church, an experience which teaches him responsibility and other lessons that he uses as an adult in the American Revolution.

The Mayflower Compact

2007
Tells the story of the first Pilgrims to come to the New World in 1620 and the Mayflower Compact, the first document of self-government.

Midnight rider

2005
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.

Torchlight

2006
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.

Massachusetts

2003
Surveys the history, geography, government, and economy of the state of Massachusetts as well as the diverse ways of life of its people.

Paul Revere

2003
Tells the life story of American hero Paul Revere, describing the work of a silversmith and explaining how significant the things he did in the American Revolution were.

Fruitlands

Louisa May Alcott made perfect
2002
Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.

The 13th floor

a ghost story
1995
When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.

The first Thanksgiving feast

1984
Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Paul Revere

1995
Retells the role that Paul Revere played during the American Revolution in 1775 in Massachusetts.

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