The author of this book is Judith Berry Griffin. Genre of this book is historical fiction which show how the small girl, Phoebe could make differently someone’s life. This book of setting is in Manhattan in 1776, Phoebe is a free black. Most of actions take house of General Washington in Manhattan. I think the author set this setting to let readers know about the hero who save president.
Phoebe Fraunces is a main character in this book. She is discreet and intelligent 13 years old a free black. Her father decided to make her a spy to save Washington’s life. She didn’t want to be a spy, but she tries to save his life. Finally, she found the criminal sprinkled the poison on the Washington’s plate. Sam Fraunces is Phoebe’s father. He is an owner
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of Queen’s Head. He is also a free black in Manhattan. He treats her preciously, but he sends her to General Washington. He met his daughter down by the market every day to arrest criminal intend to kill General Washington. General Washington is a solider of American Army. He is almost killed by Hickey, but he was lived by Phoebe. He becomes a president of America. Mrs. Washington is wife of Washington. She brings furniture that she need. She treats Phoebe kindly. Hickey approaches to Phoebe to kill Washington. He gives phoebe pea to eat for killing Washington. Washington was almost killed by Hickey. Hickey is mean about purpose. Mary is working in Monitor house as a cook. She guides Mortier House to Phoebe. She doesn’t treat them kind and bad. Pompey is a son of Mary. He works to pick some firewood to cook or make warm the house. In 1776, Phoebe Fraunces is 13.
She belongs to one of the free black families in New York. Her father is owner the Queen's Head where leaders such as Washington and Adams eat when they're in town. They trust Samuel, knowing he will keep any secrets. One April morning, he overhears someone planning to kill Washington. He asks Phoebe to work as Washington's housekeeper and be the eyes and ears for him so he can help keep the general safe. Phoebe takes care of the general and his family and tried to keep their safe. She meets with her father each evening but has nothing to report. She makes friends with the cook's 8-year-old son, Pompey, and enjoys the company and one of companies, Hickey give to phoebe pea. Her father urgently approaches her one evening. He says the general will be leaving New York in a Washington and his family will be staying in town for an extended period, few days. If you couldn’t find the bodyguard starting with Initial ‘T’, you will not found him. He will die. Phoebe is convinced someone plans to shoot the general. While she is preparing dinner plates, Hickey visits her in the kitchen. She thinks she sees him sprinkling something on the general's peas, but it evaporates, and she can't be sure. When someone at the table refers to the bodyguard as Mr. Thomas Hickey, Phoebe suddenly understands. Hickey is "T", and he means to poison George Washington. She threw the peas out the window, she yelled for Pompey to get her father. The general and his guests look
out the window as the chickens eat the peas and fall over dead. Messages of this book are the girl who saves someone’s life. I think the author of phoebe the spy let us realize the girl also helps to save someone. But when I read the scene which the Sam sent his daughter to save someone, I actually disappointed to Sam. Because if I was him, I can’t send to her, it is so dangerous even should save general. The author wants to realize us to show her who can discard her life to save someone’s life. I think this is a good book. When I saw this book, I thought this book is mixed with like ‘007 SKYFALL’. I don’t like this movie personally, but this book was fantastic and is mixed historical facts. My one of cousins recommended this book to me, it is fit to you aspect of your academic standard. So it was interesting
One internal conflict that Phoebe has is when she meets a lunatic who alters her perception of how people are. She became more paranoid. She internally acts more worried and nervous about everyone she sees. In the text on page 40 it states, “Maybe he has a knife tucked into his socks.” This shows that when the
An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi is about Emily Bransby, a 14-year old girl living in Washington DC at the time that President Lincoln was assassinated, when slaves we're being freed and people were all going crazy from all of the new changes going on. Her mother has just died and her best friend's mother is jailed for taking a part in Lincoln's murder. Because her father is also dead, Emily is forced to live with her mother's hated brother, Uncle Valentine, who is a doctor with a secret. Emily has to decide how much she's willing to risk for her uncle. An Acquaintance with Darkness was a good (yet sometimes boring) book, well written with a good twist in the end.
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Zagarell, Sandra. “Expanding ‘America’: Lydia Sigourney’s Sketch of Connecticut, Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.” Redefining the Political Novel Ed. Sharon M. Harris The University of Tennessee Press: Knoxville, 1995. 43-60.
...d in the governess's eyes. After feeling she had lost Flora to the ghost, when in reality the governess had scared the child to death, Miles still shown to be a ray of hope for the demented governess. She refused to leave him alone and began to become angry and suspicious of his corruption when he would ask of his desire for schooling.
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I, Elizabeth Phoebe Betsy Ross Griscom was born on January 1, 1752 in Philadelphia, when I was three years old we moved into a large home on 4th and Arch streets. My parents are Samuel and Rebecca Griscom, my dad is a successful carpenter. I was the eighth child out of my 17 brothers and sisters. As I grew older people known me as a seamstress, but I was actually a trained upholsterer. After I finished school, I was a student to a well-known and gifted upholsterer. Over the years, I learned how to make and fix curtains, rugs, umbrellas, bedcovers, and other tasks that involved sewing. Still under John Webster I fell in love with John Ross who was also a fellow student to John Webster. John R. was an Anglican and the son of the Assistant Rector of Christ Church. Since my family were Quakers, they did not
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