FORGE
By Laurie Halse Anderson
The Colonial Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter. This is also where Curzon the boy becomes Curzon the man. In the hardships of being a soldier he lives with the fear of being discovered, for he is an escaped slave passing for a free man. And then there is Isabel, who is also at Valley Forge, against her will. As the story builds to its exciting conclusion, she and Curzon have to sort out the tangled threads of their friendship while figuring out what stands between the two of them and true freedom.