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My Brother Sam is Dead.
Collier, James Lincoln. 1974. (Juv Fiction)
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. 216 pgs.
Toliver’s Secret.
Rady, Ester Wood.
1976. (Juv Fiction)
During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. 116 pgs.
Best Little Stories from the American Revolution by Kelly, C. Brian
Best Little Stories from the America Revolution is a journalistic history of the birth of the United States in the form of more than 100 vignettes reflecting the period. Here is the history of the war as it affected soldiers and civilians, loyalists and patriots, leaders and common folk -- people who courageously prevailed against an enemy with vastly superior resources.
Yankee Doodle Boy: A Young Soldier's Adventures in the American Revolution
by Joseph Plumb Martin
This story has a 'you were there' quality to it which gives a direct and immediate understanding of what life in the Continental army was like
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