- History, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs
Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. But even more gripping than living through the drama of Revolutionary Boston is the important discovery Johnny makes in his own life.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Esther Forbes
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- DELL PUBL CO, Perfection Learning Prebound, EMC/Paradigm
- Editions
- 70
- Language
- Chinese, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781433210419
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“ON ROCKY ISLANDS gulls woke.”
Esther Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 1898 she moved with her family to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she was educated at the Bancroft School. Although vision problems impaired her studies, she thrived on creative writing assignments. In 1912, she graduated from Bradford Junior Academy. In 1918, she moved to Boston and worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin Company. In 1926, her first novel, *Oh Genteel Lady!*, was published. That same year, she married, but was divorced in 1933. Over the course of her career Forbes published 11 books, including the biography *Paul Revere and the World He Lived In* (1942), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the historical nov
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