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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Science Fiction

Historical Time Period
Medieval
Date
1200s
Topic
Castles | Rebellion | Time Travel
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
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Ashes of Time (After Cilmeri #7)

Author: Woodbury, SarahPart of a Series: After Cilmeri

November 1291. Meg and Llywelyn gather their family at Rhuddlan Castle to celebrate their seventh anniversary and David’s twenty-third birthday. But the joyful reunion goes grievously awry when an old enemy raises the banner of rebellion, followed immediately by an even more catastrophic betrayal by an old friend.

Meanwhile, facing war at every turn and still haunted by his decision to leave Cassie and Callum in the modern world, David chooses a dangerous path forward, one that will either change the course of the future forever–or burn his world to ashes.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
India's Uprising against Britian | Modern
Date
1940s
Topic
Culture and Traditions | India | Rebellion | Romance | War
Geographic Region
Asia | India
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown

Author: Scott, PaulPart of a Series: Raj Quartet

No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule–“two nations locked in an imperial embrace”–as Paul Scott’s historical tour de force, ” The Raj Quartet.” “The Jewel in the Crown” opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Gandhi, riots break out and an ambitious police sargeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adults

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern | Jacobite Rebellion
Date
1700s
Topic
Rebellion | Scotish | Time Travel
Geographic Region
Europe | Scotland | United Kingdom
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander #2)

Author: Gabaldon, DianaPart of a Series: Outlander

Dragonfly in Amber, follows the continuing escapades of the time-shifting Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser and her Highlander husband, Jamie Fraser, straddling the centuries-old and near pasts to offer a compelling tale of intrigue, romance, war and the strains of complicated familial connections. Focusing largely on the 1745 Jacobite Rising in Scotland, it offers a down-to-earth view of a historical event that does not receive much attention in American classroom, simultaneously promoting interest in it and providing an authentic background in which the story of how the Frasers handle the series of circumstances that confront them can take place.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern
Date
1700s
Topic
Christian | Jacobites | Rebellion | Scotland
Geographic Region
Europe | Scotland
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Guns of the Lion (Faith & Freedom Trilogy, Book 2)

Author: Bond, DouglasPart of a Series: Faith & Freedom Trilogy

Douglas Bond’s sequel to Guns of Thunder: in which Gavin Crookshank has his first taste of battle at sea, when the HMS Lion engages in mortal struggle with the French allies of Bonnie Prince Charlie. A pawn in the hands of two opposing armies, Gavin attempts to act with integrity in a chaos of loyalties during the bloody Jacobite rebellion. He soon finds himself an unwilling conscript of King George II’s military service. It is the story of a maturing faith emerging out of conflicted loyalties in battles, within and without, wherein Gavin is forced to kill or be killed in bloody conflict during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 in Scotland.

Uncertain who is friend and who is foe, Gavin learns courage and duty and how to rely on God alone who makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1120L Recommended for 3-7 Grade

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Colonial America | Early Modern | Revolutionary War
Date
1700s | Late 1700s
Topic
American History | Founding Fathers | Freedom | George Washington | King George III | Rebellion
Geographic Region
England | Europe | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
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George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides

Author: Schanzer, Rosalyn

There are two sides to every story. Rosalyn Schanzer’s engaging and wonderfully illustrated book brings to life both sides of the American Revolution.

The narrative introduces anew the two enemies, both named George: George Washington, the man who freed the American colonies from the British, and George III, the British king who lost them. Two leaders on different sides of the Atlantic, yet with more in common than we sometimes acknowledge. We are lead through their story, and the story of their times, and see both sides of the arguments that divided the colonies from the Kingdom. Was King George a “Royal Brute” as American patriots claimed? Or was he, as others believed, “the father of the people?” Was George Washington a scurrilous traitor, as all the king’s supporters claimed? Or should we remember and celebrate him as “the father of his country?” Who was right? History teaches us that there are two sides to every story.

Rosalyn Schanzer’s book is an accessible account of one the most vital periods in American history. It is also a timeless lesson in seeing history from different points of view. The author spent two years researching books, paintings, cartoons, and descriptions of Revolutionary times. She uses art, text, and first-hand accounts to illustrate how history should never be reduced to simplistic conflicts between the “good guys” and the “bad guys.” Her illustrations, and her engaging quote bubbles, bring the Revolution to life again, and allow the characters of the period to speak for themselves. Through its lively text, detailed illustrations, and fully authenticated quotes, George vs. George shines fresh light on both sides of the story of our country’s formative years.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended fo 4-7 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America | Early Modern | Revolutionary War
Date
1700s
Topic
God and Salvation | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Patriotism | Rebellion
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Book

Will Northaway and the Fight for Freedom (Young American Patriots)

Author: Olasky, SusanPart of a Series: Young American Patriot

As the summer of 1765 winds down, the city of Boston heats up with revolutionary fever. Passage of the Stamp Tax in London makes everyone in town angry. Protests turn violent, and Ebenezer Mackintosh leads a mob to break into the British lieutenant governor’s house, destroying the family’s possessions.

Young Will Northaway tries to see the difference between the fierce anger of Mackintosh and his followers and the eloquent calls for independence coming from Sam Adams. Both want to throw off British rule; so what’s the difference between these men and what they want for the American colonies?

Will and his master leave Boston to escape the growing lawlessness, but soon trouble spreads to their new home, too. Through all of this, Will’s master is becoming a man of faith, and Will tries to decide what he thinks about his master’s God.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
India's Uprising against Britian | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
British History | India | Military and Wars | Rebellion | Revolution
Geographic Region
Asia | India
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Book | Ebook | Free Ebook

In Times of Peril – A Tale of India

Author: Henty, G. A.

A story of the uprising in India against the British from the British perspective. The heroes are two teenage boys.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Jacobite Rebellion
Date
1600s | Early 1700s
Topic
Jacobites | Kings and Queens | Military and Wars | Rebellion | Scotish | Scotland
Geographic Region
Scotland | United Kingdom
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Bonnie Dundee

Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary

When young Hugh Herriot first met John Graham of Claverhouse, the legendary heroic leader of the King’s cavalry in Scotland, he knew his life would never be the same. Some said “Bloody Claver’se” was in league with the devil – but Hugh was determined to follow the dashing soldier anywhere.

Joining Claverhouse – Bonnie Dundee – meant turning against his own family, religious rebels called Covenanters, who were terrorizing the land. It meant fighting battles that would decide the fate of his king and country – and that were more harrowing than he could have imagined. Most of all it meant leaving Darklis, the beautiful, mysterious girl who shared his secrets – and his love.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA - Recommended for 7-up Grades

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Revolutionary War
Date
1700s
Topic
American History | Military and Wars | Rebellion | Revolution
Geographic Region
United States - America
Format
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Rise to Rebellion (American Revolutionary War (1770-1783) #1)

Author: Shaara, JeffPart of a Series: American Revolutionary War (1770-1783)

Jeff Shaara brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.

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Lexile/Reading Level
750L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Revolutionary War
Date
1700s | Late 1700s
Topic
Growing Up - Coming of Age | Military and Wars | Post War | Rebellion | Spies
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Winter Hero

Author: Collier, James and Christopher

Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays’ Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.

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1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
4th445-810L
5th565-910L
6th665-1000L
7th735-1065L
8th805-1100L
9th855-1165L
10th905-1195L
11th/12th940-1210L
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