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  • Or Give Me Death

    A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series series Great Episodes
    A surprising Revolutionary War tale of a family beset by a mother's mental illness: "Often gripping…the portrayal of Patrick Henry is unusually complex."— Publishers WeeklyPatrick Henry, the famous statesman of the American Revolution, has a secret: He keeps his wife in the cellar. It's the only alternative to an asylum, for, slowly losing her mind, Sarah Henry has become a serious danger to ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Letter Writer

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series series Great Episodes
    " An 11-year-old girl's inadvertent role in the infamous Nat Turner slave uprising of 1831 dramatically alters her life" in this heartrending novel ( Kirkus Reviews).Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family's plantation and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Ride into Morning

    The Story of Tempe Wick

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series series Great Episodes
    A "suspenseful [and] exciting" tale of a young woman's battle to save her beloved horse during the Revolutionary War, inspired by a true story ( Booklist).The Revolutionary War is raging. Food and firewood are scarce, and Tempe Wick is worried that she will not be able to care for her ailing mother and her family and still maintain their farm in New Jersey, where troops are now camped. Her ability ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Acquaintance with Darkness

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series series Great Episodes
    A teenage orphan is caught up in President Lincoln's assassination—and another macabre plot—in this "fast-paced and dramatic" historical novel ( Publishers Weekly).Emily's mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn't know about. But after Emily is orphaned—as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the end of the Civil War—she has ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret of Sarah Revere

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series series Great Episodes
    The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father's secret—and her own: " A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent."— VOYAThirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new wife, not his ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ever-After Bird

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 52 - Great Episodes
    Now that her father is dead, CeCe McGill is left to wonder why he risked his life for the ragged slaves who came to their door in the dead of night. When her uncle, an ornithologist, insists she accompany him to Georgia on an expedition in search of the rare scarlet ibis, CeCe is surprised to learn there's a second reason for their journey: Along the way, Uncle Alex secretly points slaves north in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Fifth of March

    A Story of the Boston Massacre

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 9 - Great Episodes
    “Carefully researched and lovingly written, Rinaldi’s latest presents a girl indentured to John and Abigail Adams during the tense period surrounding the 1770 Massacre. . . . Fortuitously timed, a novel that illuminates a moment from our past that has strong parallels to recent events. Bibliography.”—Kirkus Reviews ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Finishing Becca

    A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 12 - Great Episodes
    An independent-minded young maid tells the story of social-climber Peggy Shippen and how she influenced Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of the Patriot forces. Revolutionary Philadelphia is brought to life as Becca seeks to find her “missing pieces” while exploring the complicated issues of the war between the impoverished independence men and the decadent British Tories. “This tale of treachery comes ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Staircase

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 34 - Great Episodes
    How could Lizzy Enders's father abandon her at a girls school run by nuns? She's surrounded by Catholics--but she's Methodist! Shunned by the other boarders, Lizzy befriends a wandering carpenter named José, who with just three tools--and unflagging faith--builds an elaborate spiral staircase in the new chapel in mere weeks. When he disappears without a trace, Lizzy realizes that the way she sees ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Come Juneteenth

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 58 - Great Episodes
    Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli's family, despite the fact that she was born a slave. But the family is harboring a terrible secret. And when Union soldiers arrive on their Texas plantation to announce that slaves have been declared free for nearly two years, Sis Goose is horrified to learn that the people she called family have lied to her for so long. She runs away--but her newly found ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Coffin Quilt

    The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 26 - Great Episodes
    Fanny McCoy has lived in fear and anger ever since that day in 1878 when a dispute with the Hatfields over the ownership of a few pigs set her family on a path of hatred and revenge. From that day forward, along the ragged ridges of the West Virginia-Kentucky line, the Hatfields and the McCoys have operated not withing the law but within mountain codes of their own making. In 1882, when Fanny's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • An Unlikely Friendship

    A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 56 - Great Episodes
    On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. How did these two women--one who grew up in a wealthy Southern home and became the wife of the president of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD