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Simple text and pictures recount the life of Patrick Henry, a delegate to the Continental Congress and the first governor of Virginia.

The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.

At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.

In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be an American colonist in the seventeenth century, discussing the realities of the voyage from England, dealing with Indians, and struggling for survival in the new world.

Introduces important people and events from the early years of the Virginia Colony.

Molly Randall, an eleven-year-old girl living in 1781 Virginia, has been waging a personal campaign for independence against her parents who still think of her as a child, but she gets the chance to prove she is growing up when she is charged with spreading the message that the redcoats are advancing.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

An illustrated chronicle of Patrick Henry's life that describes his early years as a farmer, his work as a lawyer, and his role in the American Revolution.

In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.

Elizabeth Cole and her best friend Felicity are known as pranksters in colonial Virginia and their favorite target is Elizabeth's older sister Annabelle; but when Annabelle becomes engaged, the girls get into big trouble.

In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids.

Set in the Civil War, the story of Henry Fleming, a raw Union army recruit eager to confirm his patriotism and prove his manhood.

When Jamie Lockhart arrives in Port Republic during the last winter of the Civil War, he learns a terrible secret that the army would kill to keep hidden, and with only the help of a one-armed soldier and a beautiful young woman, Jamie must find a way to outwit Sherman's army and stay alive.

In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.