Paley, 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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Avi

Summary: To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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Krull, 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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Cunningham, 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

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Harris, 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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Furstinger, Nancy.

Summary: Explains the events leading up to the dumping of tea into the Boston harbor, as well as the actions and consequences that followed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002

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McCullough, David G.

Summary: Presents the intensely human story of the those who marched with George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005

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Beck, Derek W.

Summary: Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 but over a year earlier in April 1775. Beck draws on previously unpublished documents to tell the full story of the war before American independence-from both sides.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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Archer, Richard

Summary: Perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. This is Richard Archer's narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town. Archer moves deftly between the governor's mansion and cobblestoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. He reveals the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010

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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Zabin, 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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Morris, Richard B. (Richard Brandon)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1973

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Wood, Gordon S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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Blumrosen, Alfred W.

Contents: Somerset's journey sparks the American Revolution -- The tinderbox -- Virginia responds to the Somerset Decision -- The Virginia Resolution unites the Colonies and leads to the First Continental Congress in 1774 -- John Adams supports the South on slavery -- Colonies claim independence from Parliament -- The immortal ambiguity : "all men are created equal" -- The Articles of Confederation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2005

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Nash, Gary B.

Summary: An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution argues that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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McNeese, Tim.

Summary: Looks at the history of the United States during the period before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, especially focusing on the circumstances in colonial life that led Americans to fight for their independence from Britain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2010

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Bunker, 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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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: "A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

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Brands, H. W.

Summary: What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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Daughan, George C

Summary: Reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution, arguing that the war was based as much in economic concerns as political ones and that most militiamen volunteered on behalf of their livelihoods and in protest of serf-like living conditions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018

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Wade, Linda R.

Summary: Discusses the causes of the American Revolution and the deteriorating relationship between Britain and the colonists into the 1770s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2001

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McCullough, David G.

Summary: Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005

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Miller, John Chester

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and company 1943

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