And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

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Turtleback, May 7, 1996 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 45 pages
Everyone knows about Paul Revere's big ride to Lexington. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes along the way. Did you know that Paul Revere forgot his spurs on his famous ride. Or that he whittled false teeth to make extra money? A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Full color.

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27
Section 2
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Section 3
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And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Jean Fritz
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Jean Fritz
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And Then what Happened, Paul Revere?
Jean Fritz
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About the author (1996)

Jean Fritz was born in Hankow, China on November 16, 1915. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Wheaton College in 1937. She wrote picture books and historical fiction before focusing on historical nonfiction. Her first book, Bunny Hopewell's First Spring, was published in 1954. Her other books included And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?; Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?; Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?; Shh! We're Writing the Constitution; Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold; Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?; Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?; The Double Life of Pocahontas; and George Washington's Mother. Homesick: My Own Story, a collection of linked narratives, traces her life from her girlhood in China to her longed-for yet uneasy passage to America. It won a National Book Award and was named a Newbery Honor Book. She received the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association, the National Humanities Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for her body of work. She died on May 14, 2017 at the age of 101.

Bibliographic information

TitleAnd Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Abia Judd Elementary School AR
Lincoln Elementary School AR
Taylor Hicks Elementary School AR
Washington Traditional Elementary School AR
AuthorJean Fritz
Editionreprint
PublisherTurtleback, 1996
ISBN0606003738, 9780606003735
Length45 pages
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