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This is a great book to give students a very basic, high level history of colonial America. This book gives you three initial choices, to live as an indentured servant in Virginia, living in colonial Massachusetts, or Philadelphia right before the Revolutionary war. It was easy to feel like these choices were actually happening to you since your choices dictated what you read next in the story. The end of this book also has a plethora of further knowledge so young readers can learn even more about colonial America if they choose such as giving them other point of views to consider such as American Indian's and British soldiers, there is a read more section with four additional books to read about colonial America, a website for further research,

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