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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
While visiting Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, presidential stepdaughter KC Corcoran and her friend Marshall investigate the theft of a box of toy horses given to Jefferson by his grandchildren.
Author
Series
Goners volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Space travelers from Planetoid Roma have returned to Earth in 1775 to recover one of their diplomats that was lost in an earlier mission, but first, they must convince the diplomat, Thomas Jefferson, to leave his new home.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power elite of Palm Beach"--Provided by the publisher.
Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming. So says Wes Holloway, a once-cocky and ambitious presidential aide, about the day that changed his life forever. On that day, Wes put the president's oldest friend, Ron Boyle,...
Publisher
CBS News
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The vote that made Jefferson President: February 17th, 1801. The House is deadlocked on a vote to decide the 3rd President of the United States because of the vagueness of the Constitution and the role of the electoral college. The Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, refuse to vote in favor of Thomas Jefferson who received a majority of the vote. Instead they will vote for Federalist Aaron Burr. Representative James Bayard confers with Jefferson...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Patsy becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother's death. She travels with him when he becomes American minister to France. It is in Paris that Patsy learns about her father's liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love with her father's protégé William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Her choices will...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In Philadelphia in 1776, Ned meets Thomas Jefferson, who is staying in his mother's inn while debating the topic of freedom in Congress and writing the Declaration of Independence.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
13) The patriots
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The play focuses on the conflict between the political and social goals of these two brilliant men: Jefferson, the far-sighted, egalitarian-minded democrat; and Hamilton, the short-tempered federalist with limited faith in the common man."--Container.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Through marriage, motherhood, politics, scandal, and her family's increasing impoverishment, Martha Jefferson yearns to find her way back to the beauty and happiness she experienced as a young girl on her father's estate.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"America is now a free country. Rush Revere, his horse, Liberty, and the time-traveling crew ride back again to witness to the early American presidents George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson in action!"--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 740L
Language
English
Description
Describes the events surrounding the writing of the Declaration of Independence in graphic novel form and explains the role of Thomas Jefferson as the sole author of the original draft.
