Finalist, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Young Adult category Armed with a long knife, flint-lock musket, and his father's medical bag, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister sets off to fulfill his father's deathbed with. Lorenzo joins a secret flatboat operation delivering much-needed medicine and gunpowder to George Washington's army, leading the reader on a romping ride from the docks of New Orleans to the battlefields of the American Revolution. This action-packed historical novel for young people tells the story of Gibson's Lambs and the Spaniards, forgotten heroes of the struggle for independence."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 11/01/2001
ISBN: 9781558853416
Pages: 153
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.47d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 134
Poder Hispanic 05/01/2002 pg. 64
Kliatt 05/01/2002 pg. 18
Multicultural Review 09/01/2002 pg. 117

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 60436 / Lorenzo's Secret Mission
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6