Johnny Tremain

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Summary: Johnny Tremain-An exciting yet realistic story
Review: Johnny Tremain is a wonderful book to read. It is not a completely true story, but the setting, the lifestyles, and some of the characters were true. The story took place both before and during the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
Johnny Tremain is a boy in Boston who is tossed around between lifestyles, as well as friends. He begins as an apprentice for a silversmith, and he meets the girl he is to marry there. Then a burn cripples his hand to the point where he cannot work with silver anymore. So he goes to another lifestyle, and meets another friend there. When that friend turns 18, the war has just begun, so he fights in the fighting that broke out in Lexington. Johnny is left in Boston with the few people who had not fled. He runs errands for Patriots, and he finds himself doing so often, forming his 3rd lifestyle.
This book is an exciting, thrilling story, and yet it keeps within historical truth. It keeps to the real ways of life back then, yet it is a fun story to read. The book is a bit slow moving, but it is still a "page turner". The book is written by a woman of the late 1800's and about half the 1900's. She had written many books, but until her two famous books were released, her books were not well known. The book that got her well known, which was the one just before Johnny Tremain, was a true biography of Paul Revere who was also a very important character in Johnny Tremain). Soon after, she wrote her Newberry Award winning novel Johnny Tremain.
Johnny Tremain became popular, for it was one of few books which were successfully written as an exciting story, that stayed within historical fact. It is very difficult to make up an exciting story about something that could quite possibly have happened, keep historical facts correct, and still manage to keep the story as exciting and thrilling as Johnny Tremain. Therefore, Johnny Tremain is a wonderful historical fiction novel.

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Summary: Book Report
Review: Johnny Tremain is about an adolescent boy who becomes apprenticed to an expert silversmith after his mother dies. He becomes very skilled at his work and is expected to do very well once he opens his own silver shop. Tragically one day while he was building a sugar basin for John Hancock he burned his hand because another one of the boys that works for the same master became angry because Johnny kept bossing him around. He was helping Johnny but when Johnny asked for a crucible he intentionally gave him a cracked one so that the silver would spill and Johnny would become embarrassed but the joke went bad and Johnny slipped on something and his hand landed in the hot silver that had spilled out of the cracked crucible and got burned severely. He was no longer a help to the Laphams silver shop so he decided to leave because he was not earning his food and while the others had to work for it. He looked around for another job for several days, sleeping in the cometary and getting any spare food he could find. Eventually he met Rab Silsbee, he worked for the Boston Observer which was a patriot newspaper company, Rab let Johnny stay with him in the attic of the "Observer" if he would do jobs and help around the house. After Johnny and Rab became pretty good friends and Rab trusted Johnny, Rab let Johnny help set up one of the secret meetings that took place in the attic where they slept of the sons of liberty, the sons of liberty consisted of people like John Hancock, Paul Revere, Sam Adams etc. Johnny soon became a familiar face at the meetings and was trusted by the important group of patriots. Johnny helped during the Boston tea party, delivered messages and news and did lots of jobs like that for the sons of liberty. After many meetings fighting finally broke out at Lexington and Concord, Rab was there and helping fight the British, unfortunately he was badly wounded before he even fired a shot. Johnny did not know any of this and did many different things to find out if Rab was okay after a lot of trouble Johnny finally found Rab wounded, soon after he found him Rab Died.

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Summary: Good for teaching history, but not a great book
Review: I read this in high school 15 years ago and I remember it being somewhat dull. It taught me a little about history, but it didn't hold my attention like other classics. Just a so-so book.

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Summary: this book bytes the dust!
Review: This is an extremely boring book.It starts out in some unsucessful silversmith shop where Johnny is basically the breadwinner. Johnny tells Cilla about how he is related to a rich and powerful family, the Lytes. Johnny has an accident, and his thumb becomes fused to his palm on his right hand. from thereon, johnny is a streetrat until he meets Rab, who is a Son of Liberty. The Lytes are loyalists so they get into quite a bit of trouble. Rab dies in the end. I think this is a good book if you aren't forced to read it like I am. Otherwise, its actually a good book for learning about the revolution. I don't reccomend it to those who like comedy books or fantasy, because there's no comedy, and it's based on actual events.

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Summary: Johnny Tremain..................................The Book
Review: Johnny Tremain is the best character ever. He has a great personality. I really liked his friend Rab. I think "Cilla(Priscilla)" was also a wonderful character. I think this story was based on real facts. It was written very well. Five stars for Esther Forbes! I hated the ending though. I think Johnny should have stayed with Cilla and Ms. Bessie. One thing I didn't like was that Mrs. Lampham(Cilla's mother) should have gotten Doctor Warren instead of a midwife when Johnny burned his hand. We studied the American Revolutionary in fifth grade (last year) and I felt this book reflected it wonderfully. Thank you, Esther Forbes, for you have the talent of a true writer.

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Summary: Johnny Tremain!
Review: Johnny Tremain is a very exciting book. It's about a 14-year old boy who wants to be a silversmith when he gets older. One day, he was making a sugar basin for someone, when suddenly, he accidentally burns his finger in the silver and he is crippled now. A couple of years later, Johnny joins the Revolutionary War for Boston's freedom. I really liked this book because it has so much excitement and a view of the Revolutionary War from people in Boston. This book is great for people who are crazy for Historical Fiction. I would give this great book five stars!!!

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Summary: Johnny Tremain
Review: Johnny Tremain is a book that tells about the life of a young apprentice in Boston, Massachusetts in the pre-war times and a little about the start about the Revolutionary War. The author of this book, in my opinion, did a great job. The storyline is interesting and exciting, and goes well with historical events that happened in the time of the story. This is a great book for all ages.

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Summary: Johnny Tremain
Review: Johnny Tremain I thought was a very good book. It was very real life and you can understand how disappointed he was when he had to find a new profession because he had a disability. The stories they told about the war were neat and believable to hear. The Sons of Liberty were an actual group and it was interesting to learn more about the people in it, the meetings, and what all they did to help the Patriots. Overall, this book was factual and very good.

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Summary: "Johnny Tremain"
Review: "Johnny Tremain" was easy for me to relate to because Johnny was about my age. This historical-fiction novel seemed very real to me through the endless illustrations it gave. The reality of a war struck home with me as I read,"Johnny Tremain," after the September 11 attacks. I saw through the book how blessed our nation is that we do not have to fight on our own nation's soil, as they did in, "Johnny Tremain." The characters had distinct personalities and mannerisms, allowing me to picture them in my mind. "Johnny Tremain," is a book I would recommend to my friends as a informative elaboration on the daily life af an American during the Revolutionary War.

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Summary: Good Book! Johnny Tremain
Review: I thought this was a very good book. I couldn't beleive it when Johnny burnt his hand in the silver. I thought it was very sad at the end when Rab dies. This book was so good that I read it in one night just because I couldn't put the book down. So it was very good! I tried giving it 5 stars but I just couldn't give it that last star.