Colonial America
Remnant
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In 1753, eleven-year-old Oluchukwu (Olu) and her brother Olaudah (Ledu) are kidnapped in Africa, separated, and sold. Olu ends up in America on a ...Read Review
The Woman with the Stone Knife
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Dale Neal reimagines the life of Helena Ostenaco Timberlake—a woman barely a footnote to history, who came forward in 1786 claiming to be ...Read Review
Love’s Winding Road (Great Wagon Road)
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Starting from colonial Philadelphia in 1753, Rose Jackson and her Scots-Irish immigrant family join a small wagon train heading south to hopefully settle in ...Read Review
To the Bone
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Ellis, a teenage indentured servant living in the Virginia settlement called Jamestown by its English colonizers, narrates this story set in the “Starving ...Read Review
Silence
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Silence Marsh is a Separatist woman in an 18th-century Massachusetts community who recounts her difficult and powerful story in this intense novel. Her ...Read Review
La Belle Famille
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The title refers to a battle fought in the Niagara region of New York during the French and Indian War. The novel is ...Read Review
The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials
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Houle takes the reader to a 17th-century New England village thrown into turmoil after witchcraft accusations were made by a circle of young ...Read Review
An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
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The story of what took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s gets the graphic novel treatment in this visually arresting retelling. When ...Read Review
All the World Beside
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Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Puritan men ...Read Review
An Etrog from Across the Sea
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Young Leah and Aaron receive a letter from their Papa, who is sailing from Corsica to colonial New York. He promises to bring ...Read Review
