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The Fifth of March

by Ann Rinaldi

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Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

FictionJuvenile fictionBoston Massacre, 1770Indentured servantsHistoryBoston Massacre (1770) fast (OCoLC)fst00836805Children's fictionBoston (mass.), fictionUnited states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fictionUnited states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction