The matchlock gun

By Walter D. Edmonds, Paul Lantz

Subjects: French and Indian War (United States : 1754-1763) fast (OCoLC)fst01800886, Juvenile literature, award:Newbery_award, Frontier and pioneer life, Newbery Medal, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction, lexile_range:801-900, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, lexile:860, age:max:10, Rifles, United States French and Indian War, 1755-1763, Fiction, Children's fiction, grade:min:2, Courage, Juvenile fiction, History, age:min:6, grade:max:5

Description: In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.