Title: Maria's story, 1773
First published: 2001
Description: In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Printing, Sex role, Juvenile fiction, Newspapers
Places: Williamsburg (Va.)
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775