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Summary: William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LIMForbes, Esther.
Summary: After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Rush Revere rides again! Saddle up with Rush Limbaugh's really good pal for a new time-travel adventure. "Whoa there, young historians! Before we go rush, rush, rushing off anywhere, I'd like a moment. I'm Liberty, Rush Revere's loquacious equine companion -- his trusty talking horse! Always at the ready to leap from the twenty-first century into America's past, that's me. When he says 'Let's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J LIMPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from citizens to vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, with the city cut off from supplies by a British...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3312 PHIZabin, Serena R.
Summary: The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ZABDi Spigna, Christian
Summary: A detailed portrait of Founding Father, Dr. Joseph Warren, examines his work as an architect of the colonial rebellion, before his hero's death at Bunker Hill obscured his essential role in America's independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARREN, JOSEPH DIPBirnbaum, Louis
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BIRForbes, Esther.
Summary: After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORJackson, D. B.
Summary: "Let the battle for souls begin in Dead Man's Reach, the fourth, stand-alone novel in D.B. Jackson's acclaimed Thieftaker series. Boston, 1770: The city is a powder keg as tensions between would-be rebels and loyalist torries approach a breaking point and one man is willing to light the match that sets everything off to ensure that he has his revenge. The presence of the British Regulars has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJackson, D. B.
Summary: Boston, 1765: In D.B. Jackson's "Thieftaker", revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others... until he is asked to recover a necklace worn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACBorneman, Walter R.
Summary: "When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks of the war were much more tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British Army. American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BORPaley, Rebecca
Summary: Recounts life in early colonial America leading up to the famous tea tax protest that pushed the colonies and the British closer to war, using the stories of Felicity Merriman and how she became caught in between the two sides of the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PALKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Describes the Boston Tea Party, including the events leading up to the party, its immediate effects on American-British relations, and why it is still an important event today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 KRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JT US Hist What KrullHarris, Duchess
Summary: The Boston Tea Party marked the beginning of the American colonies' break from British rule and would go on to inspire future protest movements. Boston Tea Party reveals why British laws prompted the event, how it led to the American Revolutionary War, and what later movements borrowed from the colonist's protest. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.3115 HARNorton, Mary Beth
Summary: "A book on the American Revolution that looks at the critical "long year" of 1774, and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battle of Lexington and Concord."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 NORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 NORBunker, Nick.
Summary: A British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and economics on both sides of the conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BUNPhillips, Kevin
Summary: In this fresh history of one of America's key turning points, author Kevin Phillips charts how this tumultuous year shaped America's commitment to revolution.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 PHIPhillips, Kevin
Summary: An unconventional assessment of the American Revolution examines the events, politics, economic factors, and military preparations of 1775 that ignited the war and established patriot control over American governance and key territories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 PHIBall, Georgia
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TARCunningham, Kevin
Summary: Discusses this pivotal event in the lead-up to the American colonies' break with Great Britain and the tense atmosphere in Boston due to various new laws and impositions on the colonists by England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013