Early Thunder

by Jean Fritz

Book Overview

From Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz comes, "The most alive story of the American Revolution that has appeared in many years." --The Horn Book

In pre-revolutionary Salem, fourteen-year-old Daniel begins to re-examine his loyalty to the King as the conflict between Tories and patriots increasingly divides the townspeople.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140322590
• ISBN13: 9780140322590
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Joe Anderson's review

I liked this book very much because it was about the Revolutionary War and I'm very interested in that Danial West has trouble figuring out whether he is a whig ( unloyal to the king ) or a Tory ( loyal to the king ). He is so sick of those liberty gifts,rotten eggs and anything nasty, the liberty boys puts on his porch. "It's the eve of the revolution and Danial must make the most crucial decision of his life." This book would only be liked by people who love American history, like me. It's not really whether you're a boy or girl, but this story is about a boy so boys might like it better. If I were to rate this book 1 to 10 on its difficulty level with1 being the easiest and 10 being the hardest book I've ever read, Id rate it a 7.

Early Thunder -Jean Fritz

This book is about a 13 year old boy named daniel who must make the choice of a lifetime.He must decide between whig and tory ,tory meaning loyalist to britian and whig meaning patriot.This book is a very good historic-fiction book it includes many good facts and many made up interesting parts,so if you like historical fiction than this is the book for you.

A great book

I think this book did several things well. It showed what was going on in the colonies from the view of tories and patriots. It also includes a lot of every day life stuff as well giving you an idea of what day to day living was like back then for grown men, women and children. Anyone should be able to relate to the main characters search for truth and identity. Its a great coming of age story set in the revolutionary war and written by one of the best authors of historical children's books.

I loved it, but I'm weird!

I read it in 5th grade. No one else in my group understood it. Their parents didn't either! I thought it was very well written and pretty easy. I'm really advanced, so I guess I don't count.