Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes, Illustrated by Lynd Ward
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- V. Good
- Seller
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cremona, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
N. Y.: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1960. Soft Cover. 8 1/8 x 5 1/8. 256 pp + suggestions for reading and discussion. A novel for older children who enjoy American history. This is Forbes outstanding story of a yound lad who is a silversmith' s apprentice who has a disasterous accident as a result of friends' practical joke. His hand is maimed for life. Embittered and out of a job he becomes involved in America's pre-Revolutionary activiti tes. As a dispatch rider for the Committee of public Safety, he meets such men as Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams. Gradually Johnny, regains his confidence and overcomes his bitterness. ". .He becomes a man of fortitude and courage - a man of a new nation." . Soft Cover/ Paperback. V. Good.
Synopsis
Johnny Tremain, a 1943 children's novel by Esther Forbes, retells in narrative form the final years in Boston prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include the apprenticeship system, the conflicts in Boston between the Sons of Liberty and Loyalists as the war approaches, and the reasons why each character in the novel chooses one side or the other.
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- Bookseller
- Ghost River Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002692
- Title
- Johnny Tremain
- Author
- Esther Forbes, Illustrated by Lynd Ward
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - V. Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- N. Y.
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES LYND WARD CHILDREN'S LIT AGES 10 - 14 AMERICAN HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Lit Ages 10 - 14;
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