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1600-1775, Colonial period

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An unmarried mother must deal with 17th century New England and its Puritan values.

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Love and Hate in Jamestown

David Price

Describes daily life in Jamestown for the British men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient but found only hardship and despair.

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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.

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The Fifth of March

Ann 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, 1

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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A novel of shame--powerful work ahead of its own time.

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