Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, Lynd Ward Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Johnny Tremain
Book Review: Blech!
Summary: 1 Stars
I had to read, or tried to read, this book for school and it was terrible! It is one of the slowest moving books I have ever read. It took me ten minutes to read one page that I could normally read in two. In other words, it does not read quickly. I was not the only one of my classmates who couldn't stand it. Six of us read the book, six of us hated it. No DESPISED it. One of my friends said, "Who would want to read this worthless piece of pig food?" I wholehartedly agree with him.Book Review: Book Report
Summary: 3 Stars
Johnny Tremain is about an adolescent boy who becomes apprenticed to an expert silversmith after his mother dies. He becomes very skilled at his work and is expected to do very well once he opens his own silver shop. Tragically one day while he was building a sugar basin for John Hancock he burned his hand because another one of the boys that works for the same master became angry because Johnny kept bossing him around. He was helping Johnny but when Johnny asked for a crucible he intentionally gave him a cracked one so that the silver would spill and Johnny would become embarrassed but the joke went bad and Johnny slipped on something and his hand landed in the hot silver that had spilled out of the cracked crucible and got burned severely. He was no longer a help to the Laphams silver shop so he decided to leave because he was not earning his food and while the others had to work for it. He looked around for another job for several days, sleeping in the cometary and getting any spare food he could find. Eventually he met Rab Silsbee, he worked for the Boston Observer which was a patriot newspaper company, Rab let Johnny stay with him in the attic of the "Observer" if he would do jobs and help around the house. After Johnny and Rab became pretty good friends and Rab trusted Johnny, Rab let Johnny help set up one of the secret meetings that took place in the attic where they slept of the sons of liberty, the sons of liberty consisted of people like John Hancock, Paul Revere, Sam Adams etc. Johnny soon became a familiar face at the meetings and was trusted by the important group of patriots. Johnny helped during the Boston tea party, delivered messages and news and did lots of jobs like that for the sons of liberty. After many meetings fighting finally broke out at Lexington and Concord, Rab was there and helping fight the British, unfortunately he was badly wounded before he even fired a shot. Johnny did not know any of this and did many different things to find out if Rab was okay after a lot of trouble Johnny finally found Rab wounded, soon after he found him Rab Died.Book Review: Boring?
Summary: 5 Stars
(...)This book was really good, and everyone in my class enjoyed it. We even are planning on writing a sequel together. (...)Book Review: Boston during lexington and concord
Summary: 4 Stars
Hadn't read this since I was in middle school, so like 35 years ago. The classic telling of what was going on in Boston in the years leading up to Lexington, told from the perspective of a disabled silver smith's apprentice. What I hadn't realized as a kid was that the author was an actual historian who won a Pulitzer for her book on Paul Revere.Book Review: Cilla
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this girl Cilla in the book to be very interesting. Her sister Isannah was pretty interesting too. The book overall was very good and had a suprise ending.