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Johnny Tremain, Book Cover May Vary Paperback – April 1, 1987
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- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level3 - 7
- Lexile measure840L
- Dimensions5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- PublisherYearling
- Publication dateApril 1, 1987
- ISBN-100440442508
- ISBN-13978-0440442509
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Johnny Tremain is a historical fiction at its best, portraying Revolutionary Boston as a living drama, through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.
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Johnny Tremain is a historical fiction at its best, portraying Revolutionary Boston as a living drama, through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.
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The cocks in Boston back yards bad long before cried the coming of day. Now the hens were also awake, scratching, clucking, laying eggs.
Cats in malt houses, granaries, ship holds, mansions and hovels caught a last mouse, settled down to wash their for and deep. Cats did not work by day.
In stables, horses shook their halters and whinnied.
In barns, cows lowed to be milked.
Boston, slowly opened its eyes, stretched, and woke. The sun struck in horizontally from the cad, flashing upon weathervanes -- brass cocks and arrows, here a glass-eyed Indian, there, a copper grasshopper - and the bells in the steeples cling-clanged, telling the people, it was time to be up and about.
In hundreds of houses sleepy women woke sleepier children Get up and to work. Ephraim, get to the pump, fetch Mother water Ann, got to the barn, milk the cow and drive her to the Common. Start the fire Silas. Put on a dean shirt, James. Dolly, it you aren't up before I count ten...
And so, in a crooked little house at the head of Hancock' on crowded Fish Street, Mrs. Lapham stood at the foot of a ladder leading to the attic where her fathe-in-law's apprentices slept. These boys were luckier than most apprentices. Their master was too feeble to climb 1adders; the middle-aged mistress too stout. It was only her bellows that could penetrate to their quarters -- not her heavy hands.
"Boys?"
No answer.
"Dove?"
"Coming, ma'am! Dove turned over for one more snooze.
Frustrated, she shook the ladder she was too heavy to climb. She wished she could shake "them limbs of Satan."
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- Publisher : Yearling; 1987th edition (April 1, 1987)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0440442508
- ISBN-13 : 978-0440442509
- Reading age : 10 - 13 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 840L
- Grade level : 3 - 7
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #601,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels have influenced the development of the graphic novel. Strongly associated with his wood engravings, he also worked in watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint.[1] Ward was a son of Methodist minister and political organizer Harry F. Ward.
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And gets young ones interested in rading
I was an elementary schoolkid when I read Esther Forbes's Johnny Tremain for the first time. It quickly became one of my favorite books. It was one of many books I read about American Revolutionary War history, but this one was special. It was special because of Johnny's personal story. For most of the book, Johnny is not an admirable character. As the book begins Johnny is an apprentice silversmith. He is a skilled artist, the chief of Mr Lapham's apprentices. He is not generous to his inferiors -- this is surely how he thinks of the other, less skilled apprentices, and even perhaps Mr Lapham himself.
He falls from his lofty position -- an accident injures his hand. From being the lord of Lapham's apprentices he now falls to become the drudge, since his deformed hand allows him no finer work. The other apprentices, whom he treated with hauteur, are now not generous to him. Johnny reacts to his fall by going into what can only be described as an Epic Pout.
From this he is rescued by a friendship. His new friend, an older boy called Rab, tries to convince him that his injury is something he can live with. Rab is also involved with Sam Adams's Sons of Liberty, and thus Johnny becomes involved with the rebels. And the rest is history, literally.
One would like to imagine that the heroes of the Revolution fought not just "that a man can stand up", but that any person -- man, woman, black or white -- can stand up. One could say that, in the end, they did, though that was not the end they saw.
This 1998 edition has an Introduction by Gary D. Schmidt that I found quite interesting. Before she wrote Johnny Tremain, Forbes was not a novelist, but a historian. She had won a Pulitzer Prize for a nonfiction work, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. She was, Schmidt tells us, dyslexic. She couldn't spell, she couldn't punctuate. (I sort of wish I knew the names of the editors who managed to bring these extraordinary works to publication.) Johnny Tremain was published in 1943, when the world was in the middle of the second World War, and it was still far from clear who would win. It was an affirmation that the war was worth fighting.