Johnny Tremain

By Esther Forbes

Grades 5-8; Genre - Fiction; GRL Z; AR pts: 13.0

Johnny is a fourteen year old apprentice as a silversmith living in Boston before the Revolutionary War.  He burns his hand and is not able to be a silversmith any more.  So he starts delivering the newspaper and gets caught up in taking sides with the rebels and the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Continue reading →