My Brother Sam is Dead Author:James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier "Sam Meeker was sixteen in 1775 when he ran away to fight the British. His brother, Tim, was a few years younger. This is their story." — Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. A Newbery Hono... more »r Book.« less