Red Pawns - Hardcover

Leonard Wibberley

4.06

18 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374362408 ISBN 13: 9780374362409

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973

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Now Available on Kindle with a new title--Manly Treegate Frontiersman.

"Best Books of 1973!"--School Library Journal

"Outstanding book for young readers."--Junior Literary Guild

In the next book in the Treegate series on American History, the author takes readers to the Battle of Tippecanoe...

While their uncle is in England trying to avert war, 18-year-old Manly Treegate and his 12-year-old brother, Peter, go to the Ohio frontier to prepare for war with the British-backed multi-tribal confederation led by a Native American Shawnee warrior named Tecumseh in what would become known as the Battle of Tippecanoe.

"Nowadays no one writes the kind of boys' adventures spun by Stevenson and C. S. Forester, but Leonard Wibberley carries on the tradition with tongue in cheek... Each new escapade revives the pleasures of old-fashioned narrative."--Kirkus Reviews

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About the Author:

Leonard Wibberley was born in Dublin Ireland, in 1915. He was the sixth child of a schoolteacher and an agricultural scientist. At nine his family moved to London. Seven years later, when his father died, he went to work as a stockroom apprentice for a publisher and later became a reporter. After various jobs, he came to the United States in 1943 and engaged in newspaper work for ten years. While working for the Los Angeles Times, he published his first work, The King's Beard. Three years later he published his most successful book, The Mouse That Roared, which was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, and later made into a classic film starring Peter Sellers.

Wibberley lived in Hermosa Beach from 1949 until his death in 1983. He wrote over 100 books and 100's of newspaper articles. He was also an adventurer, who enjoyed traveling, scuba diving, ocean sailing, and road racing.

Leonard also wrote The Father Bredder Mystery Series under the pen name Leonard Holton.

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Review:

"...the Treegates' wonderful escapades--including a ride on Nicholas Roosevelt's Ohio River steamboat and a hilariously abortive duel--are intermixed with moments of painful truth, as when Manly discovers the bones of a massacred band of Mohawk Indians and sees the signature of manifest destiny firsthand."--The Washington Post

"Dramatic action, a fine feeling for the frontier and the wilderness, and an excellent sense of history give strength to the novel."--Horn Book

"Mr. Wibberley is one of those select few historical writers who really seem to have lived in the period they portray. One of his Treegate books can teach, by osmosis, far more history than the average textbook fact-recital."--Christian Science Monitor

★★★★★ "Great introduction to the War of 1812... but also a good moral lesson for boys!"--Amazon Review

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