April morning
Record details
- ISBN: 9781449871512 (sound recording)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (5 audio files) : digital - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Jamie Hanes. |
Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 5 - Text Difficulty 7 990 Lexile. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 132516 KB). |
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Subject: | Juvenile Fiction Historical Fiction Juvenile Literature |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Historical novelist Howard Fast brings the past colorfully to life with his powerful stories. In his best-selling April Morning , he portrays a young man's introduction to the harsh realities of war during our nation's fight for independence. Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper is anxcious to join the excitement and action of the Revolutionary War. On the morning of April 19, 1775, he stands beside his Massachusetts farmer father to face the redcoats marching out of Boston. But suddenly, his father falls on the village green, and Adam's hands are shaking as he shoots at columns of marching men. With realistic drama and riveting suspense, Howard Fast brings the glory and the agony of the colonial battlefield vividly to life.