num_pages: 176
description: Samuel 13 spends his days in the forest hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony America. Far from any town or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuels parents are taken away prisoners. Samuel follows hiding moving silently determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into enemy territory to find his all the way to the British headquarters New York City.
language: English
title: Woods Runner
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books