The Matchlock Gun
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780698116801 (0698116801)
Publish date: November 23rd 1998
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
History,
Academic,
School,
Read For School,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
War,
American History,
New York
Two words: 1. Boring; 2. Dated. That is all.
Another Newbery tale that was once popular and now is seen as wrong-minded. This is an old family story of a boy who saved his mother and sister from Indian attack in the early years of New York. The boy was able to fire off an ancient family gun and stop the invaders from destroying his family. I u...