On April 19 1775, colonial troops battled redcoats at Concord's North Bridge, which resulted in nearly three-hundred British casualties and paved the way for American independence.
I have read Esther Forbes’ Newbery Medal-winning Johnny Tremain perhaps thirty times. It is the reason I fell in love with historical fiction as a child. But the book, for all its brilliance, left me wanting to know more. The novel is set primarily in the period...