Touchmark Author:Mildred Lawrence (A Junior Literary Guild selection for older readers) — Set in 1773 Boston, fourteen-year-old Abigail Jonas, is an orphan with a burning desire to become a pewterer. The character witnesses the Boston Tea Party, and later that day draws the attention of two British soldiers away from the boat that is carrying Paul Revere across the waterway to st... more »art his historic ride.« less