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A brief biography of the woman who disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
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Ann McGovern has been writing children's books for over 35 years. She has published over 45 titles including STONE SOUP, several books in the IF YOU LIVED.... series, and SCRAM, KID! (Viking, 1974), which won the Horn Book Award. McGovern spent part of her career at Scholastic, where she created the See-Saw Book Club. McGovern lives in New York City.
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From Chapter 4 -- Free - to Do What?: Deborah dreamed of a great adventure. Doing housework from morning till night and looking after a house full of babies was not her idea of a great adventure. Not yet. Not now.
Now she wanted to travel, to walk in different places, to see different faces.
During the war she had heard of Boston, Philadelphia, New York. Would she ever see those great cities?
In those days, if a poor man wanted to travel and have adventures, he joined the army.
"Why can't I join the army too?" Deborah thought. Then she laughed at herself.
"Me - Deborah Sampson - a soldier!" she thought. She knew the army was only for men.
"Wait," she told herself. "Why not me? Wasn't I a teacher without ever going to school? Wasn't I a good teacher?
"Why not a soldier? Why not dress like a man and be a soldier!"
She went to sleep that night thinking about it. She dreamed about it.
And when she woke up, her head was filled with the single thought. It wasn't a dream now. It was a hope - a plan - a secret plan!
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0606031235
- ISBN 13 9780606031233
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages63
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