Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)
Johnny Tremain: A Newbery Award Winner―A Revolutionary War Adventure for Kids
A historical novel about Johnny, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston, whose accident becomes the turning point that draws him into the turmoil of the eve of the American Revolution. It works both as a coming-of-age story and as a vivid portrait of revolutionary America.
Work Information
A classic coming-of-age story set against the background of revolutionary Boston.
Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, the novel follows Johnny, a silversmith's apprentice who loses his place after an accident and gradually finds a role in the changing world around him. Friendship, work, and political tension overlap in a classic of children's literature.
Review Summaries
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Readers tend to value the layered historical setting and the way the boy gradually learns responsibility. Some, however, feel that the opening moves slowly because of the amount of historical detail.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Clarion Books
- Published
- 2011-05-02
- Pages
- 320 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13 x 1.91 x 19.35 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780547614328
- ISBN-10
- 0547614322
- Price
- 2257 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Literature & Fiction/Historical Fiction/United States/Colonial
A classic of children's historical fiction—now with a freshly designed cover! Johnny Tremain is a thrilling Newbery Medal – winning novel about the Revolutionary War. Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper the Boston Observer and as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the pivotal events of the American Revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to the first shots fired at Lexington. Powerful illustrations by artist Michael McCurdy help bring this classic novel for middle graders to life.
Esther Forbes (1891-1967) garnered a Newbery Medal and an enduring place in children's literature with the publication of Johnny Tremain . Her adult novel, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In , won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1943.
Reviews
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Good first novel,
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Great, thank you :)
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My daughter and I read it for a book report.
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A good book for the day. Written about an old war so that men might rise up in WW2. So people desire to stand up today? Would young men die so that others might stand up?
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I suppose I had read other history books before I read this book at age 12. However, this is the book that hooked me on history. Our media, books, television, films, are full of the American Revolution and its heroes and heroines now, but back in 1952, things were pretty quiet on the American History front. We were making our own history with WWII, the Marshall Plan, the Korean Conflict, the red scare et al. In spite of all that, this book set me on fire. I wanted to know more about the foundations of our country, and I went on to read everything I could set my hands to. I am still doing it, but that is another story. "Johnny Tremain" is still a wonderful book. It tells the story of a teenaged apprentice who learns the hard way what is his real value to his country. Of course, you can't mention silver and the Revolution without bringing Paul Revere into the story. He and many other well known heroes are brought into the story along with the everyday people whose names never make the history books, but who are the real builders and heroes of any tale like this. Read this book - I've read it a couple of times. Now I am buying a copy for my grandchildren who are just about the age I was when I first opened its pages.