num_pages: 153
description: Finalist, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Young Adult category Armed with a long knife, flint-lock musket, and his father's medical bag, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister sets off to fulfill his father's deathbed with. Lorenzo joins a secret flatboat operation delivering much-needed medicine and gunpowder to George Washington's army, leading the reader on a romping ride from the docks of New Orleans to the battlefields of the American Revolution. This action-packed historical novel for young people tells the story of Gibson's Lambs and the Spaniards, forgotten heroes of the struggle for independence."
language: English
title: Lorenzo's Secret Mission
titlecomplete: Lorenzo's Secret Mission
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Arte Publico Press