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Youth Services Department

Young Adult 18th Century Fiction


Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793.  Y FIC Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Beatty, John Louis. Who Comes to King's Mountain?  Y FIC Beatty
Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided between Loyalist and rebel, must decide for himself which side he will follow.

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.

Collier, James Lincoln.  My Brother Sam Is Dead.  Y PB C
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

Collier, James Lincoln.  Who Is Carrie?   Y FIC Collier
A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.

DeFord, Deborah H.  An Enemy Among Them.  Y FIC DeFord
A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German American family from Pennsylvania.

Finlayson, Ann.  Redcoat in Boston.  Y FIC Finlayson
A thirteen-year-old joins the British Army and is sent to Boston where he is exposed to the growing resentment toward the crown and witnesses other forces that are part of the Revolutionary fervor.

Hoobler, Dorothy. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.  Y FIC Hoobler
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

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.

Lawrence, Iain.  The Wreckers.  Y FIC Lawrence
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.

Lawrence, Iain.  The Smugglers.  Y FIC Lawrence
In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.

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.

Matcheck, Diane.  The Sacrifice.  Y FIC Matcheck
When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.

Monjo, F. N.  A Namesake for Nathan.   Y FIC Monjo
Joanna Hale recounts the events of 1776 as she and her family follow the activities of her brother Nathan in the Continental Army.

O'Dell, Scott.  My Name Is Not Angelica.  Y PB O //  J FIC O'Dell
Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.

O'Dell, Scott.  Sarah Bishop.  YPB O
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.

Rinaldi, Ann.  Time Enough for Drums.  Y FIC Rinaldi
Sixteen-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 the British king.

Roop, Peter.  An Eye for an Eye.  Y Fic Roop

Schmidt, Gary D.  Anson's Way.  Y FIC Schmidt
While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master places him in conflict with the law of King George II.

Toepfer, Ray Grant. The Beat of a Distant Drum.  Y FIC Toepfer
The orphan boy who had been taken in by the Macleod family must now take care of the Brenners, employing all of his knowledge to keep the family alive and hidden in the forest while the Indians and British are out for the scalps of the Cherry Valley residents.

Webb, Christopher.  Matt Tyler's Chronicle. Y FIC Webb

Wibberley, Leonard. John Treegate’s Musket. J Fic Wibberley/Y FIC Wibberley