Marge: It's about a boy who goes to war. His hand is deform… - Esther Forbes

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Marge: It's about a boy who goes to war. His hand is deformed in an accident.
Bart: Deformed? Why didn't you say so? They should call this book Johnny Deformed.

Esther Forbes

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Esther Louise Forbes (June 28, 1891 – August 12, 1967) was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.

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A man can stand up to anything with a good weapon in his hands. Without it, he's but a dumb beast.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Then Johnny saw running down Cambridge road through the bushes on Charlestown Common a scurry of red ants. ... Those red ants were British soldiers. ... You could see the flash of musket fire, too far away to be heard. Fireflies swarming, hardly more than that.

Marge: It's about a boy who goes to war. His hand is deformed in an accident. Bart: Deformed? Why didn't you say so? They should call this book Johnn… - Esther Forbes

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