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Kidnapped

1983
After he is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, a sixteen-year-old orphan escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

Kidnapped!

2010
Retells, in comic book format, Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of sixteen-year-old David Balfour who, after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Bourbon Island 1730

2008
On Bourbon Island off the coast of Madagascar, a French ornithologist and his assistant are caught up in an adventure involving slavery, colonialism, and the last days of the great pirates.

The king's three faces

the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776
2006
Argues that colonial society in America from 1688 to 1776 created a political culture that was strongly influenced by Great Britain's monarchs until the Revolutionary War led to a break with the king.

Kidnapped

1981
A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

A place called freedom

1996
Twenty-one-year old coal miner Mack McAsh leaves his indentured servitude in Scotland on a slave ship bound for a Virginia plantation in 1766, with his only friend, beautiful, high-born Lizzie Hallim.

George Washington and the winter at Valley Forge

2012
Describes, in graphic novel format, the conditions that the poorly-supplied Continental Army endured while wintering in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1777, and General George Washington's concern for them as their commander and his efforts to get them relief.

The southern colonies

the search for wealth (1600-1770)
2013
Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes the first American colonies, the Jamestown settlement, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia, and more.

Kidnapped

2009
An illustrated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel in which a sixteen-year-old orphan, having been kidnapped by his uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

Revolutionaries

a new history of the invention of America
2010
Explores how the private lives of the Founding Fathers were suddenly transformed into public careers between 1773 and 1792, focusing on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their purpose in crafting a new nation.

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