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What is the book the fighting ground about answers. All the fighting ground inspired me to do was never read another war book. It tells the story of a thirteenyearold boy named jonathan who runs away in order to fight in the american revolutionary war. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. I did not think i would be the kind of person to like world war books, and or history in general. It is very discriptive and easy to picture, it was like watching a movie in your mind. Publishers weeklyjonathan may be only thirteen years old, but with the revolutionary war unfolding around him, hes more certain than. The newbery honor book my brother sam is dead joins the scholastic gold line. Without telling his father, jonathan rushes to join a fighting unit and experiences the harsh realities of war firsthand.
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