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Based on the classic novel by Esther Forbes, meet young Johnny Tremain, a silversmith's apprentice with dreams of learning the trade and making his own way. When a terrible injury ends his hopes, he ...

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.

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 ...

I was just 9 years old when America celebrated its 200th birthday, but I remember the Bicentennial as a national wellspring of joy, gratitude and unity that’s almost unimaginable today. I was in the ...

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 ...