The rifle

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Description

A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

First Sentence

It is necessary to know this rifle.

Description

A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994. In 1768, a gunsmith named Cornish McManus built a rifle of such accuracy that he knew he could never create another like it. He intended to treasure his masterpiece, but with a new wife to provide for, he felt pressed to sell it. Soon the rifle was helping one John Byam become a legendary sharpshooter in the American Revolution. But when Byam succumbed to dysentery, the weapon was passed on to yet another owner...and then to another and another, until the present day. Strangely, in all the time of the rifle after John Byam's death and through all the people who looked at it and held it to their shoulder, not once in the life of the rifle did anybody ever think to see if it was loaded. The rifle was loaded

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Subjects

Genres

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Series Statement

• Laurel-leaf books

Other Editions

• The rifle: 1st ed. - 1995 - Harcourt Brace, San Diego, California
• The rifle - 1995 - Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, New York, California
• The rifle - 1997 - Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, New York, New York (State)
• The Rifle - 1997-02-10 - Laurel Leaf
• The Rifle - 1997-09-01 - Perfection Learning Prebound
• The Rifle, Library Binding - 1999-10-01 - Tandem Library
• The Rifle - 2006-11-01 - Harcourt Paperbacks
• Rifle - 2016 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company