| Saving the Liberty Bell Contributor(s): McDonald, Megan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689851677 ISBN-13: 9780689851674 Publisher: Atheneum Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2005 Annotation: Eleven-year-old John Jacob Mickley is in the city of Philadelphia in 1777, when the Great Bell rings out a warning from atop the State House that the Redcoats are coming. The British are eying the Great Bell as metal for a cannon, but John Jacob tells how the clever residents kept the bell safe. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods - Juvenile Nonfiction | Adventure & Adventurers - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States |
| Dewey: 974.811 |
| LCCN: 2004012703 |
| Lexile Measure: 760 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 9.44" W x 12.18" (1.08 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 88163 Reading Level: 4.0 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Some tall tales are actually true. This is a grand one, told with rightful pride by a boy who was there in the city of Philadelphia in 1777 and was lucky enough to play a role in the American Revolution. John Jacob Mickley, eleven years old, and his father were in the city when the Great Bell began ringing Brong! Brong! BRONG! from atop the State House to warn the citizens: Redcoats! The Redcoats are coming! And come the British did -- with their muskets and their cannons and their will to keep the colonies for their king. Looting they came and stealing any metal they could get their hands on to melt down for the making of more weapons. And the prize above all? The Great Bell itself -- metal for many a cannon! But the clever Pensylvanians (yes, the word was spelled like that then) had other plans for keeping the Bell safe from the British. Megan McDonald has aptly caught John Jacob's excited retelling of the story, and Marsha Gray Carrington has relished every wild and wooly moment of it in her pictures -- both funny and carefully researched. |
Contributor Bio(s): McDonald, Megan: - Megan McDonald, beloved author of the Judy Moody books, is also a gifted storyteller. She is the author of When the Library Lights Go Out, illustrated by Katherine Tillotson; The Hinky-Pink, illustrated by Brian Floca; and the now-classic Is This a House for Hermit Crab?, illustrated by S.D. Schindler. She lives in Sebastopol, California. |