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The Boston coffee party
By Rappaport, Doreen & McCully, Emily Arnold
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06024-824-6
- Publisher
- New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1988
K-Gr 3 There really was a "Boston Coffee Party" during the American Revolution in which women punished a selfish merchant who was hoarding his coffee bean stock during the wartime shortage until the price was high enough for profit. Rappaport tells a story based on this historic detail from the point of view of two young sisters of that time, in words that ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
