Forest creature who writes books & champions libraries. American heart, Danish soul.
Author of YAs: Speak, Shout & many more
Historical adventure novels: Chains, Forge, Ashes & Fever 1793.
And…. Rebellion 1776 is a NY Times bestseller! Huzzah! 🎉❤️🇺🇸📚
Laurie Halse Anderson
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“It’s difficult to apply history to modern day; most scenarios are deeply nuanced, with too many extraneous factors to allow for a fair equivalence. Even so, Boston’s early public health system relied on an essential ingredient lacking today: trust.”
30 MAY 1776, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: Lieutenant Nathan Hale is disgusted by the Toryism he finds on Long Island: “It would grieve every good man to consider what unnatural monsters we have as it were in our bowels,” he writes to his brother Enoch.
20 MAY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: Georgia joins the Continental Congress, bringing the number of colonies represented to thirteen. Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett present their credentials and are accepted into the Congress.
10 JUNE 1776, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA: With the army regrouped and reinforced from fleeing Boston, the British fleet departs for the invasion of New York.
