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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