Seeds of America — reading order

Publication order

3 volumes·2008–2016·Completed

• Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical trilogy about the American Revolution seen by enslaved children, for whom the war’s talk of liberty is not meant.
• In Chains, the first and the one with enough ratings, Isabel, promised freedom and then sold with her little sister to a cruel Loyalist couple in New York in 1776, spies for whichever side might free her.
• Forge follows her friend Curzon to the army camp at Valley Forge, and Ashes ends the war at Yorktown.
• Clear-eyed and gripping for readers from about eleven.
• Read in order.