Banim, Lisa. Drums at Saratoga. J Fic Banim
Lured by the glamour and excitement of a soldier's life, eleven-year-old Nathaniel follows the British army down the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution and witnesses the true hardships of war firsthand.

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.

Berleth, Richard. Samuel’s Choice. J Fic Berleth
Samuel, a fourteen-year-old slave in Brooklyn in 1776, faces a difficult choice when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his doorstep and only he can help the rebels.

Burchard, Peter. Whaleboat Raid. J Fic Burchard
A sixteen-year-old boy guides a flotilla of American whaleboats across Long Island Sound to raid British-occupied Sag Harbor.

Butters, Dorothy Gilman. The Bells of Freedom. J Fic Butters

Carlson, Drew.   Attack of the Turtle. J Fic Carlson
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.

Collier, James Lincoln. War Comes to Willy Freeman. Y FIC Collier
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.

Edwards, Sally.  George Midgett's War.   J FIC Edwards
The residents of an island on North Carolina's Outer Banks are unconcerned about the war for independence until an incident causes a fourteen-year-old and his father to set out for Valley Forge with supplies for Washington's army.

Edwards, Sally. When the World’s on Fire. J Fic Edwards
During the Revolution a nine-year-old black slave girl is given the task of blowing up ammunition stored in the British barracks in Charleston.

Finlayson, Ann. Greenhorn on the Frontier. J Fic Finlayson
Just before the Revolutionary War, nineteen-year-old Harry and his twenty-three-year-old sister, Sukey, move their few possessions by hand cart to start their own farm on the western Pennsylvania frontier.

Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. J PB F/ J FIC Forbes
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

Fritz, Jean. Early Thunder. J Fic Fritz/Y Fic Fritz
Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists.

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.

Kirkpatrick, Katherine. Redcoats and Petticoats. J Fic Kirkpatrick
Members of a family in the village of Setauket on Long Island are displaced by the Redcoats and serve as spies for the Revolutionary Army of George Washington.

Kjelgaard, Jim. Rebel Siege. J Fic Kjelgaard
Story of Kinross McKenzie, the son of a frontier riflemaker, who fought for freedom with the Carolina backwoodsmen against the British and Tories in the American Revolution.

Lawrence, Mildred. Touchmark. J Fic Lawrence
An orphaned girl living in pre-Revolutionary Boston longs to be apprenticed to a pewterer.

Monjo, F. N. King George's Head was Made of Lead. J Fic Monjo
The statue of King George III, erected in Battery Park after the repeal of the Stamp Tax, tells his version of the events leading to the American Revolution.

Moore, Ruth Nulton. Hiding the Bell. J Fic Moore
After a young boy reports that he overheard a British plot to melt the Liberty Bell for cannon, he finds his family at the center of a dangerous plan to save the bell.

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.

Reit, Seymour. Guns For General Washington. J Fic Reit
Frustrated with life under seige in George Washington's army, nineteen-year-old Will Knox and his brother Colonel Henry Knox undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the dead of winter.

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

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

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