- Revolution, Fiction, History, Massachusetts, fiction
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his father shot down by the British.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Howard Fast
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 202
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Bantam # F2374, Crown Publishers
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812415100
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- Revolution
- Fiction
- History
- Massachusetts, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, war & military
- Children's fiction
- United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction
- Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
- Wapanucka Elementary School Accelerated Reader (6.1)
- Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
- Fathers and sons
“When I turned back to the house, my father called after me and asked me did I figure that I was finished.”
Howard Melvin Fast was an American novelist and television writer.
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