Thomas F. (hardtack) -
I don't know if I can call it an 'award,' but this book was selected as a "New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age." It is a novel based somewhat on a legend concerning a girl named Temperance Wick and how she hid her horse in the house to prevent it being stolen by soldiers during a mutiny. However, her page on Wikipedia states that historians aren't fully convinced this happened.
While the book is about "Temp" Wick, the narrative is mostly by Mary Cooper, her younger cousin, who was sent to live with the Wicks by her pro-British family due to Mary's embarrassing pro-American outbursts.
While the book sounds long---350 pages---the format and larger text makes the pages fly by. While I felt it dragged in some places, I did think it expressed the concerns of older girls---actually young woman, as they grew up much earlier in those days---on the verge or adult-hood engaging in personal problems of the time, or of any time.
As a much older man, I would feel comfortable recommending this to young women, if only perhaps to get them interested in how people coped during the American Revolution. The deprivation was present and wide-spread and much more serious than a cell phone dropping its signal.
While the book is about "Temp" Wick, the narrative is mostly by Mary Cooper, her younger cousin, who was sent to live with the Wicks by her pro-British family due to Mary's embarrassing pro-American outbursts.
While the book sounds long---350 pages---the format and larger text makes the pages fly by. While I felt it dragged in some places, I did think it expressed the concerns of older girls---actually young woman, as they grew up much earlier in those days---on the verge or adult-hood engaging in personal problems of the time, or of any time.
As a much older man, I would feel comfortable recommending this to young women, if only perhaps to get them interested in how people coped during the American Revolution. The deprivation was present and wide-spread and much more serious than a cell phone dropping its signal.
The Revolutionary War is raging while Tempe Wick is also waging her own battle for survival. As the whispers of mutiny about, the soldiers get bolder and mutiny is imminent. Tempe faces a gut-wrenching decision: Should she join the revolt?
The Revolutionary War is in full swing. Food and other necesities are scarce. Soldiers are freezing and resentful.
The word mutiny has been whispered under breath. As the whispers get louder, the soldiers get bolder. Mutiny is imminent. And Tempe Wick who is dealing with an internal struggle of her own due to her dying mother and her faltering farm faces a gut-wrenching decision...Should she join the revolt herself?
The word mutiny has been whispered under breath. As the whispers get louder, the soldiers get bolder. Mutiny is imminent. And Tempe Wick who is dealing with an internal struggle of her own due to her dying mother and her faltering farm faces a gut-wrenching decision...Should she join the revolt herself?
