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Great book for the whole family! Set in Philadelphia as the British occupy the city during the American War for Independence, the reader is immediately absorbed into Dr. Archibald Browne's family. A family of split loyalties to American causes and British crown, the reader will not know where the real loyalites lie until the end of the book. Not only is the story itself engaging and, at times, a page-turner, one realizes just how difficult taking sides were within the city and within the family.

Though I've read a fair amount of fiction and nonfiction about this decisive point of American history, I always learn more interesting details about life during this time with books such as this.

This would be a good family read-aloud. The vocabulary and sentence structure is advanced enough that any age below eighth grade would find reading difficult. But this is a solid book for independent high school reading.