Sam the Minuteman (I Can Read Level 3)

"Get your gun!" Sam's father said. "The British soldiers are coming this way!" Sam's father was a Minuteman. Sam was ready in a minute.

Father and son rushed to the village green. Other Minutemen were already there. Through the long night they waited and waited. Then, at dawn, the soldiers came!

In this exciting I Can Read Book, Nathaniel Benchly recreates what it must have been like for a young boy to fight in the Battle of Lexington. Arnold Lobel's vivid pictures give a poignant reality to the famous battle that marked the beginning of the American Revolution.

It’s the late 1700's in Lexington, Massachusetts, and tension is mounting between the colonists and the British. Sam's father is a minuteman - ready to fight at a minute’s notice. When Paul Revere finally gives the call to arms, every man and boy is needed and Sam must fight too. Sam is frightened, but even after his best friend is wounded, he bravely fights on in the first battle of the revolutionary war.