Great Episodes
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Great Episodes is a series of historical novels written by Ann Rinaldi
. They combine fictional and non-fictional characters to describe events in history.
Ann Rinaldi
Ann Rinaldi is an American young-adult fiction author. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons...
. They combine fictional and non-fictional characters to describe events in history.
Series
- A Ride into MorningA Ride into MorningA Ride into Morning is a historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. It is part of the Great Episodes series. It is told in first-person narration.-Plot Summary:...
(1991), ISBN 0-15-200573-0 - A Break with CharityA Break with CharityA Break with Charity: A Story about the SaleWitch Trials is a novel by Ann Rinaldi released in 1992, and is part of the Great Episodes series.-Plot synopsis:...
(1992), ISBN 0-15-200353-3 - The Fifth of MarchThe Fifth of MarchThe Fifth of March is a 1993 novel about the Boston Massacre by historian and author Ann Rinaldi, who was also the author of many other historical fiction novels such as Girl in Blue and A Break with Charity.This book is about a fourteen year-old indentured servant named Rachel Marsh who finds...
(1993), ISBN 0-15-200343-6 - Finishing BeccaFinishing BeccaFinishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold, by Ann Rinaldi, is a historical fiction published in 1994. It takes place during the revolutionary war ....
(1994), ISBN 0-15-200880-2 - The Secret of Sarah Revere (1995), ISBN 0-15-200393-2
- Keep Smiling Through (1996), ISBN 0-15-200768-7
- Hang a Thousand Trees with RibbonsHang a Thousand Trees with RibbonsHang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons is a 1996 historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. It is part of the Great Episodes series. The story,told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet...
(1996), ISBN 0-15-200876-4 - An Acquaintance with DarknessAn Acquaintance with DarknessAn Acquaintance with Darkness is a historical fiction novel by Ann Rinaldi. It is part of the Great Episodes series. It is told in first-person narration.-Plot summary:...
(1997), ISBN 0-15-201294-X - Cast Two ShadowsCast Two ShadowsCast Two Shadows is a historical novel by Ann Rinaldi, a part of the Great Episodes series; it is told in first-person.-Plot summary:It is 1780, in the midst of the American Revolution, in Camden, South Carolina, and fourteen-year-old Caroline Whitaker, her step mother Sarah, and her bratty older...
(1998), ISBN 0-15-200881-0 - The Coffin QuiltThe Coffin QuiltThe Coffin Quilt is a novel by Ann Rinaldi that was first published in 1999. Set in Kentucky, it tells the story of the Hatfield-McCoy feud in the late 19th century through the eyes of Fanny, a young female member of the McCoy family. Choosing between family and what is right is one of the major...
(1999), ISBN 0-15-202015-2 - The Staircase (2000), ISBN 0-15-202430-1
- Or Give Me DeathOr Give Me DeathOr Give Me Death is a 2003 work of historical fiction by Ann Rinaldi about the possibility that the famous words of Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me death" may in fact have been spoken first by his dying, mentally ill wife, whom he kept locked up in a cellar to keep her from hurting...
(2003), ISBN 0-15-216687-4 - An Unlikely Friendship (2007), ISBN 0-15-205597-5
- Come Juneteenth (2007), ISBN 0-15-205947-4
- The Ever-After Bird (2007), ISBN 0-15-202620-7
- Juliet's Moon (2008), ISBN 0-15-206170-3
- The Letter Writer (2008)