Declaring Independence: Life During the American Revolution

by Brandon Marie Miller

Book Overview

Declaring Independence illuminates the lives of American colonists in the late 1700s, the period during which they fought to be free of British rule. The struggle for independence affected citizens in coastal cities and towns as well as pioneers of the American back country. African American slaves heard the cry for freedom, and many escaped their owners and fled to the British, who promised the slaves their freedom. Native Americans too were drawn...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822512750
• ISBN13: 9780822512752
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lerner Publications
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

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Awards for Declaring Independence

Declaring Independence, Life During the American Revolution made several prestigious book lists. It was named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age 2006 and a Bank Street College Children's Book Committee Best Children's Book of the Year.