John Treegate's Musket: The Birth of the Revolutionary War (The Treegate Series) - Softcover

Wibberley, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1521433380 ISBN 13: 9781521433386

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

*** Child Study Association Book of the Year Award Winner ***

An epic historical adventure that takes young readers from The Boston Massacre to the Battle of Bunker Hill...

The year is 1769, and wealthy merchant John Treegate is a solid citizen of Boston, who is loyal to his British King. John has taught his eleven-year-old son Peter to be loyal too, and wanting nothing more than his father's approval, Peter always does as told.

But when his father is called back to England on business, Peter is left behind and apprenticed to a maker of barrel staves. Alone and feeling abandoned, Peter experiences the hardships of Boston's working class citizens for the first time.

When Peter is framed for murder and with no father at home to protect him, Peter is forced to flee Boston on a smuggler's brig, sending him on a series of adventures on the high seas and across the untamed lands of the Carolinas that will challenge everything his father ever taught him to believe about England, America, and the impending Revolutionary War...

"Of all the wars of which I have knowledge, I believe that none was as important for the Western World as the War of the American Revolution. Indeed, I regard it as the most important struggle in the history of Western Man."--Leonard Wibberley

John Treegate's Musket is the first in a seven-book series, which makes a great companion to study the Revolutionary War era.

Recommended reading in the Seton Home Study Guide for Grade 8.

THE TREEGATE BOOK SERIES:
Book 1: John Treegate's Musket
Book 2: Peter Treegate's War
Book 3: Sea Captain from Salem
Book 4: Treegate's Raiders
Book 5: Leopard's Prey
Book 6: Manly Treegate Frontiersman (formerly titled Red Pawns)
Book 7: The Last Battle

Each book in the series is complete to itself and can be enjoyed if read in any order. However, for greatest reading pleasure, it's recommended that the books be read in sequence.

The acclaimed seven-book series chronicling the adventures of the generations of the Treegate family from the birth of the Revolutionary War through the War of 1812, ending at the Battle of New Orleans is also available in a 7-Book Bundle exclusively on Kindle.

About this title

About the Author

Leonard Wibberley was born in Dublin Ireland, in 1915. He was the sixth child of a schoolteacher and an agricultural scientist. When he was 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 a Christian-themed crime series--The Father Bredder Mysteries--under the pen name Leonard Holton.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1521433380
• ISBN 13: 9781521433386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176