I have read Esther Forbes’ Newbery Medal-winning Johnny Tremain perhaps thirty times. It is the reason I fell in love with historical fiction as a child. But the book, for all its brilliance, left me wanting to know more. The novel is set primarily in the period before the American Revolution began, and even after the first shots were fired at Lexington, I wanted to know more about the critical action at North Bridge, Merriam’s Corner, and the B…
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