Fiction Books for Students

Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 4.6
In the colony of New Jersey in 1777, with her family torn apart by the American Revolution, thirteen-year-old Anne Brewster must try to conceal and deliver to General Washington a coded message whispered to her by a gravely injured soldier. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 5.5
During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 5.9
In the midst of a backyard campout, five children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 5.6
In 1777 Philadelphia, young Maddy Rose spies for General Washington's army by using an unusual code to communicate with her soldier brother. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 5.2
"Seeds of America." After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 5.7
"Seeds of America.";Sequel to: Chains.;Includes bibliographical references. Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 4.2
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 4.0
Eleven-year-old Teddy, upset by the conflicts between his Patriot father and Loyalist mother, mistakenly joins the wrong unit of his local Williamsburg, Virginia, regiment as a member of the fife and drum corps and marches to South Carolina to participate in the Battle of Camden in August 1780. (TitleWave)

Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 5.1
Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their South Carolina home to fight in the Revolutionary War, thirteen year-old Joey Kershaw finds all his resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and chooses the Kershaw house as his headquarters. (TitleWave)