The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare | 
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare | 
Knight's Fee
by Rosemary Sutcliff |
In The Face of Danger
by Joan Lowery Nixon |
A Family Apart
by Joan Lowery Nixon |
Sun Horse, Moon Horse
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
The Mark of the Horse Lord
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
I Am Regina
by Sally M. Keehn | 
Mable Riley
by Marthe Jocelyn | 
Victory
by Susan Cooper | 
The Shining Company
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
Outcast
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
The Second Bend in the River
by Ann Rinaldi | 
Lord Kirkle's Money
by Avi | 
People of the Nightland
by W. Michael Gear |
The Blue Door
by Ann Rinaldi | 
Dawn Wind
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo | 
I Am David
by Anne Holm | 
Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith |
In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War. It is a harrowing march north. Miriam can only force herself to the next stopping place, the next small portion of food, the next icy stream to be crossed. At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and, perhaps, even a life of slavery. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney, her sweetheart on his way to Harvard, is the crying of her sister'??s baby, Captive, born on the trail. Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal, a city of shifting loyalties filled with the intrigue of war, and here, by a sudden twist of fortune, Miriam meets the prominent Du Quesne family, who introduce her to a life she has never imagined. Based on an actual narrative diary published in 1807, Calico Captive skillfully reenacts an absorbing facet of history.