Enemy soldiers are occupying Philadelphia, several living with Hope's family. Now eleven years old, she learns to pretend niceties to the British officers to keep them from ransacking their home. While waiting out the war, she prays for the safe return of her father and brother. This description may be from another edition of this product.
My 8 year old daughter has been enjoying this book -- read it through twice and now her siblings are reading it. The entire Dear America and My America series' are wonderful historical fiction that bring our history to life in a way that young people can relate to.
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Hope Potter is almost eleven years old when she begins her third diary on Christmas Day, 1777. Her older brother Ethan has finally returned home, but their house in Philadelphia is still occupied by British soldiers, and her father is still away fighting for the Patriots. Hope can no longer even see her best friend, Polly, because Polly's parents are Loyalists. Things become even worse when the family learns that Papa is very...
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