Full name: Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak

Author: Kay Winters Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Poetry, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780525478720 0525478728

Follow an errand boy through colonial Boston as he spreads word of rebellion. It?s December 16, 1773, and Boston is about to explode! King George has decided to tax the colonists? tea. The Patriots have had enough. Ethan, the printer?s errand boy, is running through town to deliver a message about an important meeting. As he stops along his route? at the bakery, the schoolhouse, the tavern, and more?readers learn about the occupations of colonial workers and their differing opinions about living under Britain?s rule. This fascinating book is like a field trip to a living history village. Similar books: Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C. M. Millen I Want to be Free by Joseph Slate My Uncle Emily by Jane Yolen Homespun Sarah by Verla Kay The Bell Rang by James E. Ransome Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack Abe Lincoln by Kay Winters Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles The Gardener by Sarah Stewart Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston Unspoken by Henry Cole Time for Bed by Mem Fox That Book Woman by Heather Henson