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DeMitchell, Terri A.,

The Portsmouth alarm : December 1774 / - [Second edition]. - 176 pages ; 22 cm

Originally published: Mahomet, Ill. : Mayhaven Pub, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Young Andrew Beckett hopes to be a doctor. Jack Cochrane plans to take over his father's position as militia captain of the fort. Then Paul Revere rides into town with urgent news that changes their lives forever. The Portsmouth Alarm : December 1774 is based on an actual event. On December 13, 1774, just four months before the events in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, Paul Revere delivered a message to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Committee of Correspondence. The message warned of General Gage's shocking plan for the Piscataqua Region, sparking hundreds in New Hampshire and Massachusetts (now Maine) to take action"--Back cover.

"Ages 10-14"--Back cover.

ISBN: 9781737437802 1737437805

Subjects--Personal Names:
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818 --Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Hampshire--History--Causes--Revolution, 1775-1783--Juvenile fiction.
United States--History--Causes--Revolution, 1775-1783--Juvenile fiction.
Portsmouth (N.H.)--History--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6