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Remember Valley Forge: Patriots, Tories, and Redcoats Tell Their Stories

Age 10+
Grade 5-6

Thomas B. Allen

Remember Valley Forge: Patriots, Tories, and Redcoats Tell Their Stories

Paperback (National Geographic Children's Books July 14, 2015) , Reprint edition
Remember Valley Forge tells the ultimate survival story. Travel the trail of defeat that leads Washington's ragtag army to seek winter refuge at Valley Forge. Read from a teenage soldier's diary and a doctor's gruesome accounts of disease, hunger, and cold. Learn of plots against Washington and spies who aid the enemy. Discover why farmers sell the British food as the Continental Army starves and a powerless Congress looks on. Learn the true story behind the amazing achievements of the "winter soldiers." A time line, archival images, maps, Web sites, source list, and index make this an excellent research tool for students.

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Series
Remember
ISBN
142632250X / 9781426322501
Pages
64
Weight
12.6 oz.
Dimensions
9.2 x 0.2 in.

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