The matchlock gun
About this book
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- age:max:10
- age:min:6
- award:newbery_award
- children's fiction
- courage
- fiction
- french and indian war (united states : 1754-1763) fast (ocolc)fst01800886
- frontier and pioneer life
- grade:max:5
- grade:min:2
- history
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- lexile:860
- lexile_range:801-900
- newbery medal
- rifles
- united states french and indian war, 1755-1763
- united states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction