Bulla, Clyde Robert. Charlie’s House.  J Fic Bulla
A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early eighteenth century, runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own.

Collier, James Lincoln. The Bloody Country.  Y Fic Collier
In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.

Cresswell, Helen. A Game of Catch.  J Fic Cresswell
A contemporary girl plays a "game of catch" with two children from an eighteenth-century painting.

Howard, Ellen. When Daylight Comes.   Y Fic Howard
After a slave uprising on an eighteenth century settlement in the Virgin Islands, a white girl held prisoner by the rebels follows a slow passage to understanding of her captors.

Jensen, Dorothea. The Riddle of Penncroft Farm.  J Fic Jensen
Lars Olafson’s move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor, who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

McCaughrean, Geraldine. Plundering Paradise.  Y Fic McCaughrean
Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo’s dangerous past.

Moore, Robin. The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek. J FIC Moore
Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Ann's Story, 1746/1747. J FIC Nixon
Ann, a young girl in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study Latin or mathematics.

Paterson, Katherine. The Master Puppeteer.  J Fic Paterson
A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver.  J Fic Speare/ J PB S
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.

Sutcliff, Rosemary. Flame-Colored Taffeta.  J Fic Sutcliff
Twelve-year-old Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural community near the southern coast of England in the eighteenth century.

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