Silence and Lily
Subtitle: 1773
By: by Kathleen Duey.
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780142409091; 9780525478522
Subjects: Family life -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Fiction; Horses -- Fiction; Boston Tea Party, 1773 -- Fiction; Indentured servants -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation.