Booklists · Other Fiction about Early American History for 4th -10th Grades

In 1793 14-year-old Matilda Cook finds herself in the middle of a struggle to keep herself and her loved ones alive in the midst of the yellow fever epidemic.

A 12-year-old English girl and her mother flee with other religious protesters to the New World in the early 1500's and find both heartbreak and hope when they arrive.

A young girl becomes ensnared in the terror of the Salem Witch Trials. (Dear America)

The 11-year-old son of William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Colony, arrives from Holland in the 1630s and tries to fit in as the colony faces its first murder and trial.

In 1748, 14-year-old Matt, orphaned, crippled, teased by other boys and abused by the man he works for, seeks refuge with a surgeon’s family and finds he can help protect them from pirates on Delaware Bay.

When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, 12-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.

14-year-old Augustus Pelletier, half French, half Omaha Indian, joins Lewis and Clark on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. (Dear America/My Name is America)

A pilgrim girl makes the dangerous journey on the Mayflower and makes new friends, meets Indians, and encounters a sickness that leaves her motherless. (Dear America)

16-year-old William helps build a settlement in the New World as their leader returns to England for supplies, but upon his return, the colony has vanished.

12-year-old Merry is kidnapped from London in 1621 and sold as an indentured servant to a glassworks in Jamestown where a mystery ensues.

In 1768, after building a rifle that is his greatest piece of work, gunsmith Cornish McManus is forced to sell it to support his family, and the rifle is passed from owner to owner down through the years.

In 17th-century England, after witnessing the hanging of her wise and beloved grandmother as a servant of the devil, a teenage girl seeks haven in America, where she faces a terrible danger once again.

Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, tells of the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

A 14-year old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and in the Plymouth colony from 1620 and 1621. (Dear America/My Name is America)

Spunky 13-year-old Sarah, the daughter of famous Patriot Paul Revere, fears that her father’s friend, Dr. Joseph Warren, has dishonorable feelings for her mother.

In 1687, Kit, feels out of place in her aunt's Puritan household and befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community, only to find herself standing trial for witchcraft.