In these pretentious post-modern times — when even mainstream television is stuffed with narrative trickery, irony run amok and enough fast talk to reduce a vaudevillian ventriloquist to open-mouthed ...

When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the Sons of Liberty army, taking part in the Boston Tea ...

W estboro-born, Worcester-bred Esther Louise Forbes wrote those immortal words to close out “Johnny Tremain,” a novel that has brought the American Revolution War to life for millions of young adults.

Considering its age and overt educational and patriotic aims, Esther Forbes’s 1943 young-adult novel, about an apprentice silversmith who becomes swept up in the American Revolution, is remarkably ...