Happy 4th of July!

Hey YAs, it's Independence Day!  On this day 236 years ago our forefathers adopted the Declaration of Indepence, a document that announced to England that we intended to be our own country.  Here are some teen books I have set in this period in our country's history~

Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.

  Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

 After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

OK.  Now go enjoy some fireworks :)

There was a box on my desk today!

And that means new books!  Here are the three that came in.  Expect them out on the shelves soon =)

The Sons of Liberty by Alexander Lagos

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Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative graphic novel reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.

 

Black Angels by Linda Beatrice Brown

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Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north, enduring hunger, fear, sickness, and constant danger, before arriving in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.

 

 Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks

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Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.