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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:28:07 -0500
 Jan 18 10:23:55 2000
From: lorraine tedesco <dwilson@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Native American Storyteller
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:00:26 EST
From: Tom Moppert <Xiquin@AOL.COM>
Subject: Hit: Historical Fiction - Colonial America


Dear LM_NETers - Long Island, Metopolitan NYC only.

I am teaching an in-service course for teachers on Native American
Literature for Children and Young Adults.
I always have to try and have a guest storyteller.  Jim Bruchac (not
Joe, that’s his father) is available for the date we wanted March 18.
HOwever.  He comes from upstate NY, 5 or 6 hour drive and would like to
make the trip more fruitful with a few more bookings in schools or
public libraries.
He is doing a storytelling in a school in Southold, NY on the 14 of
March and will be doing his storytelling Southhold Indian Museum on the
18th.
He is young and an exciting teller of tales.  We had him a few years ago
(which is an interesting story in itself).
If you are interested in having him for a school program any other day
that week or around that time please contact him directly.  His email
address is:
asban@together.net
James (Jim) lives near Saratoga NY>
Thanks,
Don Wilson
Assist. Prof. Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU. NY
dwilson@liu.edu

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Well, here is the summarized hit for my query regarding historical fiction of
the colonial times. I have listed the titles below and kept many of the
comments and ideas as well.  Wow! What a response I received. Thank you all.
The brief bibliography has proven to be quite helpful.


Thomas Moppert - Media Specialist
Truman Middle School
Albuqeurque, NM 87121

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Avi -  The Fighting Ground
Avi - Night Journeys
Brady, Ester - Tolliver's Secret
Clapp, Patricia -  Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth
Collier - My Brother Sam is Dead
Fox, Paula -  The Slave Dancer
Forbes, Esther -  Johnny Tremain
Fritz, Jean -  Her biographies of colonial and revolutionary leaders are
terrific
Gauch, Patricia Lee - How About this Time, Tempe Wick
Lasky, Kathryn  - Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience
Whipple,
Mayflower, 1620. (Dear America Series) Scholastic 1996
Lawson, Robert - Ben and Me, and Mr. Revere and I
Pryor, Bonnie -  Thomas
Speare - The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Speare -  Sign of the Beaver
Tripp, Valerie - Meet Felicity: An American Girl
Wibberley, Leonard -  John Treegate's Musket
Wisler, G. Clifton - This New Land
Wood, Esther Brady -  Tolliver's Secret


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I like Avi,  The Fighting Ground for colonial America and the Revolution.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (I think the author is Speare) is a nice one
that tells about the time period.

there's a book about Deborah Sampson, but I can't think of the title
General Washington's breakfast (might be George Washington's Breakfast)
If you lived in Colonial Times by McGovern

I don't remember the author on this one, but try Phoebe, the Spy. It's
about a young servant girl who spies on the British after they are
quartered in local homes during the Revolutionary War.

This New Land by G. Clifton Wisler. Walker 1987. Tale of Richard and his
family who travel on the Mayflower in 1620.  This is a parallel tale to the
Lasky above, told from a boy's rather than a girl's perspective.

Meet Felicity: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp. Pleasant 1991.  Felicity
is a girl living in colonial Williamsburg, VA, in 1774.  Sequels to this
story take her into the Revolutionary War period.  Part of the American
Girl Collection.  Very easy reading for middle school.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare. Houghton 1958.  Historical
romance set in Puritan Connecticut.  Still liked, mostly by girls.

Night Journeys by Avi. Morrow 1994.  About a Quaker boy who tries to
capture two indentured servants.

(I *do not recommend* Elizabeth Speare's The Sign of the Beaver, also set
in colonial times, though liked by lots of people, because it is racist ---
putting down the Indians in the story.  I also *do not recommend* Rachel
Field's book The Calico Bush, for the same reason.)


Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (he is an apprentice to Paul Revere in Boston)

Felicity series from American Girl (about 4th grade level, family lives in
Williamsburg)

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
(young boy in Maine surviving a winter; befriending Indians; Newbery
Honor Book)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
(young girl's assimilation into a Puritan society; Newbery winner)

A Journey to the New World by Kathryn Lasky
(Part of the popular "Dear America" series; diary form; good story about
Mayflower, first thanksgiving, Plymouth, etc.)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond was always a favorite with my fifth graders!
My Brother Sam is Dead  (Check the reviews or read it first. It was
taken OUT of our curriculum but I use it in the library. Both girl and
boys love it.)

We are currently reading Bonnie Pryor's book entitled Thomas with 4th
graders...an 11 year old boy and his family caught up in colonial
Pennsylvania around the beginning of the American Revolutionary
War...entails how the Tories burned them out of their home and they had to
escape to the fort and then across mountains to Phildelphia.

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