historical fiction

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Changes for Felicity

a winter story
2000
In volume six in a six-volume American Girl series, nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg is worried that Jiffy Nye will make trouble again and her English friend, Elizabeth's, father is jailed for being a Loyalist.

Rifles for Watie

1991
The struggles and hardships faced by Jeff Bussey on his 300-mile escape route during the Civil War.

The last of the Mohicans

2002
An adaptation of the story about the exploits of a young white man and his Mohican Indian friends during the French and Indian War.

This time, Tempe Wick?

2003
Everyone knows Tempe Wick is a most surprising girl, but she exceeds even her own reputation when two mutinous Revolutionary soldiers try to steal her beloved horse.

Liberty Street

2003
Young Kezia is a slave, living in nineteenth-century Fredericksburg, Virginia, until her mother helps her escape. Includes historical notes.

The 5,000-year-old puzzle

solving a mystery of ancient Egypt
2002
A fictionalized account of the excavation of a secret tomb at Giza, Egypt, in 1925, told through the experiences of a young boy who accompanies his father on an archeological dig.

Three swords for Granada

2002
In 1420 Spain, three young cat friends join the warrior cats as they struggle to save their beloved Granada from the vicious dogs of the Fidorean Guard.

Sunsets of the West

2002
Pa and his family pack up their belongings and undertake the difficult journey to a new life in the West.

King's mountain

2002
Fourteen-year-old Frank leaves his mountain home in South Carolina to help the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War.

Maria's story, 1773

2001
In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper.

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