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Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak


By Kay Winters

Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School, Middle School
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Group 2008

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Different colonial Bostonians introduce themselves through Kay Winter's poems or free-verse vignettes that describe their work and their feelings about the current political situation on December 16, 1773. The poems are enhanced by historical notes and a glossary.

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