Ann Turner
illustrations by Ron Himler 1997
Anne Turner takes family lore and turns it into a story about a girl whose family are Tories during the Revolutionary War. When the rebels break into her house and her family flees to the woods to hide, Katie runs back to the house in innocent child anger. Forced to hide in a trunk while the rebels ransack and steal, she is shown kindness in a subtle, unexpected way.
Anne Turner explains, "In telling this story, I hope children will see that history is made up of real people- just like us. Nothing is ever clearly black or clearly white, and these great events were lived through by ordinary people- ordinary people in extraordinary times."
This is a nice companion book to so many of the revolutionary stories we have.
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