Rinaldi, Ann

Overview

Works:	115 works in 501 publications in 1 language and 52,717 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works History Diary fiction Historical fiction Spy fiction Paranormal fiction Bildungsromans Young adult works Domestic fiction
Roles:	Author
Classifications:	PZ7.R459, FIC

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Ann Rinaldi

Ann Rinaldi : historian and storyteller by Jeanne Blain McGlinn( Book )
Something about the author. facts and pictures about authors and illustrators of books for young people by Maikue Vang( )
Ann Rinaldi : (1934-)( )
The secret of Sarah Revere by Ann Rinaldi( )
The quilt trilogy #2 : broken days by Ann Rinaldi( )

Keep smiling through by Ann Rinaldi( )
Hang a thousand trees with ribbons : the story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi( )
Ann Rinaldi : (1934- )( )

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Most widely held works by Ann Rinaldi

Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

7 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in English and held by 3,161 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Overview: Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli's family, despite the fact that she was born a slave. But the family is harboring a terrible secret. And when Union soldiers arrive on their Texas plantation to announce that slaves have been declared free for nearly two years, Sis Goose is horrified to learn that the people she called family have lied to her for so long. She runs away - but her newly found freedom has tragic consequences

Nine days a queen : the short life and reign of Lady Jane Grey by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

5 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in English and held by 2,575 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A look into the life of Lady Jane Grey who reigned as queen for nine days before being beheaded

My heart is on the ground : the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

7 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 2,205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880 a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people

A break with charity : a story about the Salem witch trials by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

21 editions published between 1992 and 2005 in English and held by 1,841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692

The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim boy by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

4 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 1,784 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences of the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth in 1620 and 1621

Hang a thousand trees with ribbons : the story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

18 editions published between 1996 and 2008 in English and held by 1,577 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet

The color of fire : a novel by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

4 editions published in 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Someone is setting fires in New York City ... In 1741, America is at war with Catholic Spain. Phoebe watches as her town erupts into mass hysteria when the whites in New York City accuse the black slaves of planning an uprising. With people implicating each other at every turn, Phoebe has to decide if she's willing to save her friend Cuffee from execution, or if her own conscience and quest for freedom will be singed by her indiscretions

An acquaintance with darkness by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

16 editions published between 1997 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Overview: When her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush is forced to go live with her uncle Valentine. She is immediately suspicious of her uncle's unusual late-night activities and fears he may be involved with body-snatching, but every time she resolves to confront him, she is thrown off balance by something good he has done. When she stumbles upon the truth, the betrayal is more than she can bear. But when forced to put her emotions aside, Emily discovers that although her uncle is breaking the law, the risk he takes ultimately benefits mankind

Wolf by the ears by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

8 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Numbering all the bones by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

9 editions published between 2002 and 2005 in English and held by 1,348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure, ' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life ..."

The coffin quilt : the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

12 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 1,347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield

Time enough for drums by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

12 editions published between 1986 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jemima comes of age and finds romance and danger in this novel set during the American Revolution. Sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British king

Taking liberty : the story of Oney Judge, George Washington's runaway slave by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

11 editions published between 2002 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom. The bulk of the book describes Judge's life with the Washington family. Only the 3 page prologue (p. 1-3), pages 243-249, and the "Author's Note" (p. 250-259) describe Judge's life in freedom

Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

7 editions published between 2001 and 2004 in English and held by 1,305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C

The fifth of March : a story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

11 editions published between 1993 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770

In my father's house by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

11 editions published between 1992 and 2003 in English and held by 1,223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house

The last silk dress by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

10 editions published between 1988 and 1999 in English and held by 1,206 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets

The secret of Sarah Revere by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

9 editions published between 1995 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution

Or give me death : a novel of Patrick Henry's family by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

11 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 1,118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother

Cast two shadows : the American revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi( Book )

14 editions published between 1998 and 2004 in English and held by 1,117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and, along with a startling revelation about her own background, comes to understand the true nature of war

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