"Liberty's Children: Stories of Eleven Revolutionary War Children" by Scotti Cohn

I picked up this book while in Colonial Williamsburg over the Fourth of July weekend this summer.  It looked like it might provide some different perspectives on the American Revolution than the other books I'd been reading, most of which focus on adults or fictional children.  And that's exactly what it did.

The wartime experiences of eleven different children are told in this book.  They come from a pretty wide cross-section of the country -- there are city kids and country kids, free white kids and enslaved black kids, teenagers and kids in the single digits, boys and girls.  And all of them were new to me -- although I had read about many of the broader events they were involved in, none of these specific historical figures were people I'd read about before.

All of that combined to make this slim volume -- a little over 120 pages, not including the endnotes -- a fascinating addition to my quest to read at least thirteen books set during the American Revolution in this, our nation's 250th year.  

If This was a Movie, I Would Rate It: PG for descriptions of wartime violence and danger.

This is book 10 of my #RevolutionaryWarReads quest!