My Brother Sam is Dead

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Call Number: R Newbery Honor 1975, Teen Fiction / Collier, James
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Newbery Honor 1975	0-week checkout	Library Use Only
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Collier, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Youth level.
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

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Great submitted by 04foremanh on July 6, 2012, 6:36pm A very realistic and well written classic!

Brings the Revolutionary War home submitted by FordAlpha on August 13, 2019, 11:02am An essential companion to kids' study of the American Revolutionary War, "My Brother Sam Is Dead" was perhaps the first novel I read as a kid that brought home the cost of war. The American Revolution is often taught in simplified terms, but this story vividly portrays the complexity that real people navigated at the time. The narrative structure is a bit advanced for kids, beginning with the end already known (Sam is dead) and working back through the events that led up to it.