The Fighting Ground

April 3, 1778. Amer­i­ca is caught up in the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War. On this warm spring morn­ing, not far from Tren­ton, New Jer­sey, a 13-year-old boy and his father are qui­et­ly till­ing the sod on their farm. But the boy can think of only one thing: He wants to fight. He knows how to use a gun-why won’t his father let him go?

Unex­pect­ed­ly, the qui­et is cut by the sound of a bell-an alarm ring­ing from the near­by tav­ern. Jonathan is sent to find out what the trou­ble is. What he finds in the next twen­ty-four hours, when he does fight and is tak­en pris­on­er by three Hes­s­ian sol­diers, changes his under­stand­ing of war and life for­ev­er. The real war, he dis­cov­ers, is being fought with­in himself.

This swift­ly paced adven­ture sto­ry of a bat­tle-with­in-a-bat­tle is told by Avi in stark detail, with vivid his­tor­i­cal set­tings and breath­tak­ing action.