Library Journal

As a young woman in Colonial Massachusetts, Jane Clarke rebels against her domineering father; she feels he is pushing her into a marriage she is unsure about. Jane is then sent from her small seaside village on Cape Cod to live in Boston with an elderly aunt. There, in 1769 and 1770, Jane gets caught up in a much larger rebellion, as conflict grows between Bostonians and the Redcoats, who are stationed in the city by the British government. Jane herself gets caught up in the violence when she witnesses British soldiers shooting into a crowd, a history-making incident that would come to be called the Boston Massacre. VERDICT This well-researched and lively novel captures the mood of those turbulent times. It will especially appeal to female readers who enjoy historical fiction and young adult readers willing to immerse themselves in a realistic novel with no vampires or other supernatural creatures.?Leslie Patterson, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence, RI