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3) Betsy Ross
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduction to the life of the Philadelphia seamstress credited with sewing the first American flag.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1995
Description
"More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning biography of one of democracy's greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three bestselling books, Common Sense, The Rights of Man,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that "history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine." Thomas Edison called him "the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible." He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, "The United States of America." He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era's intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his...
10) Molly Pitcher
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Series
Publisher
Raintree Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Life of the woman who became a Revolutionary heroine when she carried water to the soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.
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Description
In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers--how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A childhood biography of the Pennsylvania German woman who became a Revolutionary War heroine when she carried water to American soldiers and even fired a cannon herself during the Battle of Monmouth.
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Biography of eight women who played a role during the American Revolution, including Deborah Samson, Nancy Morgan Hart, Lydia Darragh , Mercy Otis Warren, Esther DeBerdt Reed, Elizabeth Martin, Sybil Ludington, and Margaret Corbin.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That's up for debate, but "Who Was Betsy Ross?" tells the story of...
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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 chose differently-- and soon heard themselves denounced...
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