The Arrow Over the Door

To fourteen-year-old Samuel Russell, called "coward" for his peace-loving Quaker beliefs, the summer of 1777 is a time of fear. The British and the Patriots will soon meet in battle near his home in S…

If you like book The Arrow Over the Door here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

The Sherwood Ring

Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British schola…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Detective, #1)

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
Buy this book on Amazon
Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

From 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were marched from their homelands in Georgia to exile in Arkansas by the same white men they has once befriended. The Cherokees journeyed through bitte…
Buy this book on Amazon
Mary Jones and Her Bible

Heartwarming, real life story of Mary Jones, a young girl living in rural Wales in the late 1700s. Mary was a popular girl who loved her parents, worked hard and was keen to learn but most of all she …
Buy this book on Amazon
A Murder for Her Majesty

Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen Elizabeth I, eleven-year-old Alice Tuckfield hides in the Yorkshire cathedral by disguising herself a…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London

Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff's thrilling novel set in 1700s London. Now in paperback!

It's 1735. Forrest Harper's life inside the Tower of London consists of three ways to pass the chores, chore…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Good Master

Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his father's ranch on the Hungarian plains. But their summer proves more adventurous than he had hoped when h…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Singing Tree

A Newbery Honor Book - from the author of The White Stag

Life on the Hungarian plains is changing quickly for Jancsi and his cousin Kate. Father has given Jancsi permission to be in charge of his own h…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

“A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred

Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spen…
Buy this book on Amazon
Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishin…
Buy this book on Amazon
Year of Impossible Goodbyes

It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to…
Buy this book on Amazon
Banner in the Sky

The Citadel

It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared to approach the top, and that man died in his pursuit. He was Josef Matt, Rudi Matt's father.

At sixteen…
Buy this book on Amazon
The King's Fifth

A 1967 Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews).

Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old…
Buy this book on Amazon
"But Don't All Religions Lead to God?"

Buy this book on Amazon
Homeless Bird

Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in th…
Buy this book on Amazon
Betsy and the Emperor

"Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Napoleon Bonaparte!"

Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have an unusual Napoleo…
Buy this book on Amazon
Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners (The Story of the World, #3)

This third book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines an…
Buy this book on Amazon
Escape Across the Wide Sea

When his family's weaving shop is destroyed because his family refuses to convert to the king's religion, Daniel and his family flees France and the only home they've ever known and end up on a two-ye…
Buy this book on Amazon
Master Cornhill

Michael Cornhill struggles to make a new life for himself when his foster family and friends fall victim to the Great Plague
Buy this book on Amazon