Revolutionary War Literature 
                (Historical Fiction) 

Are you interested in reading a fictional book that takes place during the Revolutionary War time period? 
Take a look at the bibliography below. 

North Library

• The Fighting Ground  by Avi  

• The Year of the Hangman  by Gary L. Blackwood 

• The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot  by Barry Denenberg 

• Betsy Zane:  The Rose of Fort Henry by Lynda Durrant

• Johnny Tremain  by Esther Forbes

• The Winter of the Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart by Kristin Gregory 

• The Griffin Legacy by Jan O’Donnell Klaveness 

• Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell

• Cast Two Shadows:  The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi 

• Or Give Me Death:  A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family by Ann Rinaldi 

• Finishing Becca:  A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold by Ann Rinaldi          

• Numbering the Bones by Ann Rinaldi 

• The Red Badge of Courage:  An Episode in the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

South Library

• 1909-Ruffles and Drums by Betty Cavanna 

• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier 

• War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier  

• An Enemy Among Them by Deborah H. DeFord