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Clarion Books, 1998-23-03

Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy

Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy

Jim Murphy, Author

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9780395900192

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In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them. He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy's humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire.
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Keywords and Themes: Biography & Autobiography • Boys & Men • Family • General (see also headings under Social Topics) • Girls & Women • Historical • History • JNF007020 • JNF007110 • JNF007120 • JNF009000 • JNF025180 • JNF025190 • JNF053210 • Juvenile Nonfiction • Social Activists • Social Topics • United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • United States - State & Local • Violence • Women

Age Range • 10-12

Pages • 112

Subjects • Martin • Joseph Plumb • Connecticut • History • Revolution • 1775-1783 • Juvenile literature. • United States • Campaigns • Juvenile literature • Soldiers • Biography

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical • Juvenile Nonfiction | Boys & Men • Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Violence • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - State & Local • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women • Juvenile Nonfiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Topics) • Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women

Vivid black and white photographs and background details add to the compelling wartime memoirs of Joseph Plumb Martin, a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who enlisted in the revolutionary army in the summer of 1776. "An outstanding example of history brought to life through the experience of one individual." -- School Library Journal, starred review
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