Early American Historical Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• U.S. setting
• Historical Fiction
• Strong Characterization

The Whiskey Rebels
By David Liss
F LISS
Hired by his onetime fiancee to find her missing husband, Ethan Saunders, a former spy for Washington during the Revolution, follows a trail that leads him to Alexander Hamilton and to rebellious whiskey-makers fiercely opposed to a tax on their products.

The Fifth of March
By Ann Rinadli
YA F RINALDI
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

Johnny Tremain
By Esther Forbes
YA F FORBES
Johnny Tremain, apprentice silversmith, takes on the cause of freedom as a message carrier for the Sons of Liberty in pre-Revolution Boston.

Boston Jane
By Jennifer Holm
YA F HOLM
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond
By Elizabeth George Speare
YA F SPEARE
A young woman brought up in Barbados comes to live with her uncle in Connecticut, and finds their Puritan way of life difficult after her unconventional upbringing.