COLONIAL PERIOD

Historical Fiction

	Albrecht, Lillie. Susanna’s Candlestick. Orphaned soon after arriving in Boston, a twelve-year-old Puritan girl continues on alone to a new life on the New England frontier.
	Altsheler, Joseph. Kentucky Frontiersman Young Henry Ware helps to establish a pioneer settlement in early Kentucky, joins in defending it against the attack of hostile Shawnee Indians, and spends some time among the Shawnee as a somewhat willing prisoner.
	Avi. Encounter at Easton The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid-18th-century Pennsylvania town.
	Avi. Night Journeys Two young indentured servants escape into Pennsylvania in the late 1700's and receive help from an unexpected source.
	Bruchac, Joseph. The Winter People As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
	Bulla, Clyde. A Lion To Guard Us Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.
	Clapp, Patricia. Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth The journal of a young girl tells of her daily life, hardships, romances and marriage during the first years of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth.
	Clapp, Patricia. Witches’ Children: A Story of Salem During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches.
	Cooney, Caroline. The Ransom of Mercy Carter In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
	Crompton, Anne. The Ice Trail Persistent memories of his earlier life compel 15-year-old Tanial to flee from his Abnaki Indian captors and journey during the winter from the northern shores of Lake Champlain to the English settlements.
	Curry, Jane Louise.  A Stolen Life In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter.
	Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
	Dorris, Michael. Guests Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.
	Durrant, Lynda. The Beaded Moccasins After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.
	Duble, Kathleen Benner. The Sacrifice Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
	Durrant, Lynda. Echohawk A twelve-year-old white boy, adopted and raised by Mohicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730's, is sent with his younger brother to an English settlement for schooling.
	Durrant, Lynda.  Turtle Clan Journey Sequel to Echohawk.  When Echohawk, his brother, and his Mohican father make a dangerous journey from the Hudson River Valley to a settlement on the Ohio River, Echohawk feels the conflicting pulls of his dual heritage.
	Edmonds, Walter. The Matchlock Gun In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
	Farber, Norma. Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93 With the help of the respected minister Cotton Mather, a young girl attempts to recover from her tragic experience with the Indians which has led her to believe she is bewitched.
	Field, Rachel. Calico Bush This heartwarming and enthralling Newberry Honor Book tells the story of a young girl who is left orphaned and alone shortly after her French family arrived in the New World.
	Fisher, Leonard. The Warlock of Westfall A lonely old recluse is accused by his fellow villagers of being the devil's disciple when they discover he has invented an imaginary family to keep himself company.
	Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
	Fleming, Candace. The Hatmaker’s Sign: A Story by Benjamin Franklin To heal the hurt pride of Thomas Jefferson as Congress makes changes to his Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin tells his friend the story of a hatmaker and his sign.
	Forrester, Sandra.  Wheel of the Moon In England in 1627, newly-orphaned Pen Downing leaves her country village for London where she is abducted and sent to Virginia to work as an indentured servant.
	Fritz, Jean. The Cabin Faced West Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.
	Gallico, Paul. Miracle in the Wilderness; A Christmas Story of Colonial America An Algonkin raiding party captures a colonial family and encounter a Christmas Eve miracle as they journey through the woods.
	Gray, Elizabeth.  Meggy Macintosh
	Harrah, Madge. My Brother, My Enemy Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
	Hays, Wilma. Siege! The Story of St. Augustine in 1702 The Spanish colonists in St. Augustine withdraw to the fort as the English approach the town hoping to claim it and subsequently all Florida for England.
	Hooks, William. The Legend of the White Doe After the destruction of the English colony on Roanoke Island by hostile Indians forces the survivors to live with a friendly tribe, Virginia Dare finds her first love coming to a tragic and supernatural end.
	Jacobs, Paul. James Printer; A Novel of Rebellion Although he has lived and worked as a printer's apprentice with the Green family in Cambridge Massachusetts, for many years, James, a Nipmuck Indian, finds himself caught up in the events that lead to a horrible war.
	Karwoski, Gail Langer. Surviving Jamestown Sam Collier, a twelve-year-old, serves as page to John Smith during the relentless hardship experienced by the founder at the first permanent English settlement in the New World .
	Keehn, Sally. I Am Regina In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
	Kirkpatrick, Katherine. Trouble’s Daughter When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna,daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.
	Koob, Theodora. Hear a Different Drummer After running away from his harsh master, a fourteen-year-old apprentice becomes involved in the French and Indian war where he learns that every man has his own particular calling.
	Krensky, Stephen. The Printer’s Apprentice In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government.
	Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the Burning Time When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
	Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple: Mayflower/Plymoth Colony, 1620 Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
	Latham, Jean. This Dear-Bought Land In 1607 a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia.
	Lawlor, Laurie.  Adventures on the Wilderness Road, 1775 Elizabeth and her family set off by foot and horseback to travel to Kentucky through dangerous Indian territory.
	Lawson, Robert. Mr. Revere and I A horse tells how he helped Paul Revere become a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
	Lenski, Lois. Indian Captive; The Story of Mary Jemison A novel based on the true story of a girl abducted from her frontier home by Seneca Indians; after much difficulty in adjusting to the Seneca way of life, she decides, when given the chance, not to return to the white world.
	Levitin, Sonia. Roanoke; a Novel of the Lost Colony An English youth and an Indian girl are caught up in the events leading to the mysterious disappearance of the colony at Roanoke Island.
	McDonald, Megan.  Shadows in the Glasshouse While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
	McGill, Alice.  Molly Bannaky Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
	Monjo, F. N. The House on Stink Alley Young Love Brewster describes the experiences of his family and other Pilgrims living in Leyden in the years before the Mayflower sailed for the New World.
	Mott, Michael. Master Entrick; An Adventure 1754-1756 Young Master Robert Entrick is kidnapped from England and is forced into the life of a bond servant in America during the French and Indian wars until he makes his escape.
	Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Will’s Story: 1771 Will, the son of a Williamsburg goaler, suspects that  captured runaway slave is planning to escape.  Should he tell his father, despite his own sympathy to the slave?
	O'Dell, Scott. The Serpent Never Sleeps; A Novel of Jamestown Pocohontas In the early 17th century, Serena Lynn travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life.
	Osborne, Mary Pope. Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
	Petry, Ann. Tituba of Salem Village In the Salem Village of 1692, superstition and hysteria peaked with the Salem witch trials. One of the first three "witches" condemned is Tituba, a slave from Barbados.
	Rees, Celia.  Witch Child In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
	Richter, Conrad. Light in the Forest Though reared as a Lenni Lenape Indian, fifteen-year-old True Son, once called John Camera Butler, was ordered back to the white man. It was impossible for True Son to believe that his people were white and not Indian. He had learned to hate the white man. And now he learned to hate his new father, his new house, his new family. He hated the name John Butler. Where did he belong now—and where could he go?
	Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity; a Story About the Salem Witch Trials While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
	Rinaldi, Ann. The Color of Fire Phoebe, a black servant, finds herself caught in the mass hysteria of an uprising in New York City in 1741.
	Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
	Rinaldi, Ann.  The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce; a Pilgrim Boy, Plimoth Plantation, 1620 A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plimoth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
	Rinaldi, Ann. The Secret of Sarah Revere Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.
	Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage This is the story of Major Robert Rogers and the early Rangers of the French and Indian War. Most of the book is an accurate description of what occurred during that time period.
	Shaik, Fatima. Melitte In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.
	Smith, Mary. The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield An account of the experiences of a boy taken captive at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during the Indian raid of 1704.
	Speare, Elizabeth. Calico Captive Based on an actual narrative diary, this is the story of a young girl captured by Indians in 1754, sold to the French for ransom, and eventually returned home.
	Speare, Elizabeth. The Prostering The life story of Elizabeth Williams, the youngest daughter of missionary John Sergeant who founded the Massachusetts Stockbridge Mission House in 1739.
	Speare, Elizabeth. Sign of the Beaver Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
	Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond A high-spirited teenage girl rebels against the narrow-minded ways of Puritan Connecticut and befriends a lonely old woman who is subsequently accused of being a witch.
	Stainer, M.L. The Lyon’s Roar Fourteen-year-old Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to Roanoke Island in 1587, their attempt to make a permanent settlement, and Jess' contact with the Croatoan Indians. (Paperback Collection)
	Steele, William. Flaming Arrows An Indian attack on a fort in the Tennessee wilderness makes young Chad Rabun realize that it is wrong to condemn one person for the misdeeds of another.
	Stephens, Peter. Towappu: Puritan Renegade In 1674, Timothy is caught up in the struggle between the soldiers of Plymouth Colony and the leader of the Wampanoags - King Philip.
	Walter, Mildred Pitts. Second Daughter; The Story of a Slave Girl Aissa, the teen-age fictional sister of Elizabeth Freeman, struggles against a system which declares that she is property and that she is to remain silent.
	Waters, Kate.  Mary Geddy’s Day
	Wibberly, Leonard. John Treegate’s Musket In 1769 Boston comes alive through the life of John Treegate, a Boston citizen and member of the American Colonial Militia, as he struggles against the British Redcoats and the Scottish Highlanders regiments.
	Wilcox, Eleanor. Cornhusk Doll In the frontier days following the French and Indian wars, young Sally Redpath is captured and then raised by the Shawnee.
	Wisler, G. Clifton. This New Land Ten-year-old Richard Woodley describes his trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower and tells about the first year spent by the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
	Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Once on this River While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, eleven-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.