A history from the first colonists' defense against Indian attacks to the firing of the "shot heard around the world"

Narrates the reasons for Paul Revere's ride and the subsequent confrontations between the British and the Minutemen which in effect began the Revolutionary War.

In this exciting classic early reader, Nathaniel Benchly re-creates what it must have been like for a young boy to fight in the Battle of Lexington. Arnold Lobe