During the Revolutionary War, Jem Emerson, a fifteen-year-old from New Jersey, is torn between her love for her family and her feelings for her twenty-four-year-old tutor, John Reid, known as a Tory.
year: 2000, 1986
call number/section: 1000
subjects: trenton, battle of, trenton, n.j., 1776, fiction, man-woman relationships, historical fiction, man-woman relationship, united states, campaigns, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction, history, 1775-1783, revolution, trenton, battle of, 1776
Editions
Rinaldi, Ann
Dell Laurel-Leaf (2000)
During the Revolutionary War, Jem Emerson, a fifteen-year-old from New Jersey, is torn between her love for her family and her feelings for her twenty-four-year-old tutor, John Reid, known as a Tory.
Schools: 7
Rinaldi, Ann
Holiday House (1986)
Sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British king.
Schools: 3