Writing style
Descriptive · Direct
Apple BooksJohnny Tremain
Historical fiction
- First published
- 1943
- Print length
- 300 pagesGraphia, 2011
Newbery Medal, 1944
Description
Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain is a gifted but proud silversmith’s apprentice in colonial Boston, eager to prove himself through a demanding commission for merchant John Hancock. When a deliberately caused workshop accident cripples his hand, his expected future disappears, and repeated rejections force him to seek another place in the city. Friendship with young typesetter Rab Silsbee brings Johnny to the Whig Boston Observer, where printing, street work, and secret political activity draw him into the Patriot cause. As protest gives way to the Boston Tea Party, British occupation, and a closed harbor, Johnny’s personal struggle to rebuild his life becomes inseparable from a community preparing for revolution.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Earnest · Hopeful · Tense
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Plot
Emotional intensity
3 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Graphia
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547614328
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