Audio Reviews:Audiobook released in January, 2004
"Rinaldi, as always, has done her research well and both fictionalized and
real characters are woven into the tapestry of historical facts. Hughes’
expressive and energetic reading makes this an outstanding audio treat."”
-KLIATT 5/04
"Ann Rinaldi's award-winning
novel...melds history and fiction to give an excellent view of colonial Boston,
its inhabitants and the political and social attitudes that pervaded the city.
Rinaldi has scored a winner with this book, destined to be a classic, and
Hughes ably provides a clear, crisp and honest rendering."
- School Library Journal, 4/04 SYNOPSIS: Fourteen-year-old
Rachel Marsh is nanny to John and Abigail Adams’ children and witnesses firsthand
how tension builds in the feisty New England town in the two years before it erupts
in the Boston Massacre. Friends become foes and families divide as British
troops arrive in 1768 to force the outspoken Bostonians to toe the line and obey
the British government.
But the idea of liberty and self-government
has taken hold, and once considered, can not now be set aside. At the same
time, Rachel begins to take stock of her own life and future, and learns that
to live life to its fullest and with integrity, one must seek the truth for oneself
and take a stand.
Ann Rinaldi, a master at making history come
alive, creates a tense and front row seat for the listener as she uses the voice
of young Rachel Marsh to underscore that American liberty was not easily won,
but at great cost to those who would not let their dreams die.
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