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Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold

by Ann Rinaldi · 1994 · 384 pages

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Fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War.

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Genre
historical fictioncoming of ageromancewar and military
Themes
childhoodamerican history
Setting
american revolutionUSApennsylvaniaphiladelphia
Subject
historypolitics
Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade
Length
medium · 384 pages

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