The Bookman
By: by Howard Fast; illustrated by Francis Bak.
Contributors: Francis Bak (Illustrator)
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9780439056885
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
First sentence: We were very poor, but we were never as bad off as the soldiers.
Description: The war has crept all the way to Bently Corbatt's front door.

The year is 1780. The American Revolution has been going on for years. There are thousands of soldiers camped everywhere around Bently's house. Everywhere he looks, he sees cold, hungry soldiers.

One day a bookman arrives at the house. He travels all over the country, selling books. He decides to stay a while with Bently and his sister. He shows them books about amazing places and people.

Is the bookman just another visitor? Or will he change the Corbatts' lives in ways they never imagined?
Notes: A Read 180 Stage A Book.
Text copyright 1945 by the author.