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A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.Tags
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Willy disguises herself as a boy so she can try to save her family during the American revolutionary war. She witnesses her father’s death while he was fighting in the war so she returns home only to find that that her mother has been taken as a prisoner by the British. She dresses as a boy to go out and search for her mother and worries if she would be able to live as a girl again. This book can be used to introduce the Revolutionary war. Its appropriate for grades 5 and 6.
War comes to Willy Freeman is about a girl who lost her father in war and her mother was captured by the British. So she traveled around Boston in disguised as a boy. However her uncle's family is under slavery and his master wants to make Willy his slave. She has no defense because she doesn't have her freedom papers. Will she find her mother in time?Will she find someone to trust? Or will she be in chains again?
This book is recommended to people who like Historical fiction or adventure
This book is recommended to people who like Historical fiction or adventure
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James Lincoln Collier was born in 1928. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1950 and served in the infantry during the Korean War. After college, Collier worked first for six years as a magazine editor, writing in his spare time. In 1958, he quit to work free-lance, and has since then published over six hundred magazine articles for periodicals show more such as, Playboy, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine and the Village Voice. Collier has also published a half dozen books for adults, the most recent being The Making of Jazz, which was nominated for an American Book Award, was named to the London Observer's Books of the Year List for 1979, and has been published in English, French, German, and Russian editions. Collier also published twenty-three children's books, five in collaboration with his brother, Christopher Collier. These have been published in seven languages, and have won the Child Study Association Book Award, a Newbery Honor Medal, a Jane Addams Peace Prize, and a National Book Award nomination. Many of them have appeared on the ALA Notable Book List, and others on the New York Public Library's recommended book list. Collier is also a professional trombonist, and writes fiction and nonfiction on the subject of music. His book, Rock Star, won an award from the Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College. My Brother Sam Is Dead was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975 and was designated a Notable Book by the American Library Association as well as being nominated for a National Book Award in 1975. Jump Ship to Freedom was named a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies in 1981 by a joint committee of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council. War Comes to Willy Freeman is a companion book to the novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- War Comes to Willy Freeman
- People/Characters
- Willy Freeman
- Important places
- Connecticut, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Important events
- American Revolution (1775 | 1783)
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .C678 .W — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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