My Brother Sam Is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier & Chirstopher Collier
All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave — and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion. Most are supporters of the British — including Tim and Sam's father.

With the war soon raging, Tim know he'll have to make a choice — between the Revolutionaries and the Redcoats . . . and between his brother and his father.

Excerpt:
Up to that time the war hadn’t been very real. I mean I knew it was going on because of stories in the Connecticut Journal, and from tales we heard in the tavern — stories travelers would tell us about somebody being killed or suddenly coming across some fresh bodies in a field. One man who stopped with us had been at the Battle of Lexington and had been wounded in the knee there. He walked with a limp, and he had the ball that wounded him a string around his neck. And of course Sam wasn’t the only one from Redding who’d joined the militia; there were others, and every once in a while you’d hear about his one or that one having been in a battle and maybe having been killed or wounded.



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