Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

Sorceress

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England

Canada, Canada, Eastern, Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction, History

Witch Child

Celia Rees

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775, Diaries, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Juvenile fiction

The Sabbath in Puritan New England

Alice (Morse) Earle

Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775, New England, Social life and customs, Sunday

973.2
EAR

Colonists for Sale

Clifford Lindsey Alderman

Examines the origin, working conditions, and eventual fate of indentured servants in America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775, Indentured servants, Social life and customs, United States, YA literature

301.44
ALD

Founding Mothers

Linda Grant De Pauw

Describes the daily lives, social roles, and contributions of women living during the revolutionary period.

Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775, History, Social conditions, Social life and customs, United States

301.41
DeP

Slumps, Grunts, and Snickerdoodles

Lila Perl

Examines the diets and culinary innovations of the American colonists and gives thirteen colonial recipes, including succotash, snickerdoodles, and spoon bread.

Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775, Cookery, American, Social life and customs, United States, YA literature

641.5
PER