Analysis Of Aaron And The Green Mountain Boys By Patricia Lee

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The targeted audiences for Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys by Patricia Lee, would be consider for a second grader reading ability, the content may not be fully understandable without a small amount of geography and background knowledge. While Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, would be best for middle school, as the book's length and had a lot of subject that not fully understood with base knowledge of what the revolutionary war is. Ways the book where alike is the subject of trying to grow up and change through a same time period in different area. While Aaron was trying to become a man in small village, and Johnny finding his was in the center of Boston where the war started. Different areas to young boys are treated different when age is

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