Lorenzo's Secret Mission (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781558853416)

Finalist, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Young Adult category Armed with a long knife, flint-lock musket, and his father's medical bag, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister sets off to fulfill his father's deathbed with. Lorenzo joins a secret flatboat operation delivering much-needed medicine and gunpowder to George Washington's army, leading the reader on a romping ride from the docks of New Orleans to the battlefields of the American Revolution. This action-packed historical novel for young people tells the story of Gibson's Lambs and the Spaniards, forgotten heroes of the struggle for independence."

Author: Lila Guzman
ISBN-10: 1558853413
ISBN-13: 9781558853416
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2001
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.47d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 60436 / Lorenzo's Secret Mission


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 134
Poder Hispanic 05/01/2002 pg. 64
Kliatt 05/01/2002 pg. 18
Multicultural Review 09/01/2002 pg. 117