Young Adult 17th Century Fiction
Crew, Gary.
Strange
Objects.
After discovering valuable relics from a seventeenth-century shipwreck,
a sixteen-year-old Australian disappears under mysterious
circumstances.
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.
Hildick, E. W.
Hester
Bidgood, Investigatrix of Evill Deedes.
Thirteen-year-old Hester Bidgood and her fourteen-year-old friend Rob
Macgregor investigate the stoning and branding of a kitten in a New
England
town caught in the grip of witchcraft rumors during the year 1692.
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.
O'Dell, Scott. The
Serpent Never Sleeps.
In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with
the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and
comes
to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess
Pocahontas.
Sturtevant, Katherine. At
the Sign of the Star.
In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking,
needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller
and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.