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George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides

By Rosalyn Schanzer

An illustrated comparison of George Washington and King George III in the years leading up to and including the American Revolution, with particular sensitivity to the British point of view.

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Cuckoo’s Flight

By Wendy Orr

A girl helps her father raise horses, which the village people don’t understand until the horses prove themselves during an enemy raid. Last book in Minoan Wings trilogy.

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Blood on the River: James Town, 1607

By Elisa Carbone

12 yo British boy, enlisted as a page for Captain John Smith, joins the voyage to settle Jamestown, Virginia. Sequel is Poison in the Colony.

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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

By Carole Boston Weatherford

Picture book biography in verse of life of Henry “Box” Brown, an African American slave who mailed himself to freedom. With back matter.

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Kaiulani, The People’s Princess

By Ellen Emerson White

Diary of last princess of Hawaii, who was sent to England for school, while white businessmen angled to take over control of her beloved islands. Part of Scholastic’s Royal Diaries series

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Seabird

By Holling C. Holling

History of America at sea, with a special emphasis on the New England whaling industry

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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

By Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy

Young woman refuses to be subservient to the patriarchy and moves to the big city to start a business

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Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims

By Clyde Robert Bulla

A biography of the Native American Pokanoket man who welcomed and assisted the English settlers at Plymouth Colony.  This story also covers an earlier period during which he had been kidnapped and taken to Spain and England.

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Jessie Benton Fremont: California Pioneer

By Marguerite Higgins

Fictionalized life of John C. Fremont’s wife, daughter of a prominent senator, supporter of her explorer husband, and editor of his field notes.

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