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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.
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Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Formats
Description
"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids. Includes historical information about the Revolutionary War.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation where Sam was raised Annabelle, the owner's daughter, struggles to run things after her father's death.