The Iron Peacock by Mary Stetson Clarke, illustrated by Robert McLean, Viking Press, New York, 1966
A historical novel about a young girl arriving from England to work in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The setting is the Saugus Iron Works at the time of the Pilgrims.
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1943
The Newbery Medal winning novel about a boy in Boston and the events that triggered the Revolutionary War.
The Glass Phoenix by Mary Stetson Clarke, Viking Press, New York, 1969
A novel about a boy in Sandwich Massachusetts in 1827 and the famous Sandwich Glass factory.
The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky, drawings by Trina Schart Hyman, Frederick Warne & Co., Inc., New York 1981
A story about a Jewish girl who listens to her Grandmother's reminiscences about escaping from persecution in Russia in 1900.
George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley, pictures by Don Bolognese, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1977
The story of a drummer boy with the British King's soldiers at the time of the battles of Lexington and Concord at the start of the Revolutionary War.
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie by Kristiana Gregory, Scholastic Inc., New York, 1997
The fictional Oregon Trail diary of 13 year old Hattie Campbell as she and her family travel by covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1847.
A Little Maid of Maryland by Alice Turner Curtis, Applewood Books, Bedford, MA, 1923
A novel about a girl who helps the American Colonial patriots to trick the British soldiers.
Dreams in the Golden Country by Kathryn Lasky, Scholastic Inc., New York, 1998
The fictional diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl in New York City in 1903.
Six Silver Spoons by Janette Sebring Lowrey, pictures by Robert Quackenbush, Harper & Row publishers, New York, 1971
Another story about the start of the Revolutionary War and some spoons made by Paul Revere.
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Peter Sis, Greenwillow Books, New York, 1986
A Newbery Medal winning book about a fictional boy and a Prince Brat in an imaginary place and time.
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