By Rinaldi, Ann 

After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.

By Rinaldi, Ann 

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.

By Paulsen, GAry 

From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.

By Lagos, Alexander 

Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.

By Anderson, Laurie Halse 

(Sequel to Chains) Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

By Rinaldi, Ann  Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

By O'Dell, Scott  In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.

By Deford, Deborah  A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German American family from Pennsylvania.

By Massie, Elizabeth  Sixteen-year-old Caleb, a free black living in a slave state, must choose between joining the volunteer rebel army of General Washington, and fighting against the Americans under British Governor Lord Dunmore.

By Massie, Elizabeth  Nat and Richard, two orphaned thieves, travel from London to the new English colony at Jamestown, where the settlers are unprepared for the brutal reality of frontier life. Will they be able to use their wits to survive in this colony on the brink of starvation?