Just+for+Fun

If you find that you're really interested in the American Revolution or Colonial America, you might want to read more about this era of our nation's history just for fun! Here are some books and websites that we recommend:

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**Historical Fiction Books**
//**Chains**// by Laurie Halse Anderson After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

//**The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation**// by M. T. Anderson When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces.

This alternate history novel takes place in 1777. Having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
 * //Year of the Hangman//** by Gary Blackwood

Adam Cooper, 15, observes the events in Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
 * //April Morning//** by Howard Fast

17-year-old Beatrice "Bea" Whaley is a student who begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren, a member of an elite group known as Knowlton's Rangers that fought during the Revolutionary War. Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures in 1776; filled with danger and romance they give her much to muse about the next day. But it is not long before Beatrice questions whether her dreams are simply dreams or something more.
 * //The Dreamer: The Consequence of Nathan Hale//** by Lora Innes

In this graphic novel set in pre-Revolutionary America, slaves Graham and Brody run away from their cruel master and are found by Benjamin Franklin's son, William, who performs strange experiments on them that leave them with superhuman abilities.
 * //The Sons of Liberty//** by Alexander Lagos

//**Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the**// //**American Revolution**// by William Lavender 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.

//**Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South**// by Ann Rinaldi In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.

Fifteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from Britain.
 * //Time Enough For Drums//** by Ann Rinaldi

The 1770 killing of civilians by British troops during the Boston Massacre and the tumultuous trial that follows ignites the flames of revolution that will culminate in America's epic struggle for independence.
 * //Rise to Rebellion//** by Jeff Shaara

A novel about a pivotal period in the American Revolution relates the colonists' uphill battle in their quest for freedom, while General George Washington makes a fateful decision to cross the Delaware River and confront the enemy in New Jersey.
 * //The Glorious Cause//** by Jeff Shaara


 * All book annotations from NoveList

**Websites**
Discover the spies, spy networks, and secret codes used during the war.

Get the British perspective on the American Revolution!

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