Young Adult 18th Century Fiction
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