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=Plot= Nathaniel is a thirteen year old boy with blue eyes that was abandoned by his father and sold after the death of his mother. An old teacher named Basil saves him from being bought by a cruel man named Owen, but he is also forced to leave his friend Moses, a slave, behind. Nathaniel faces a new and better life in Williamsburg being an apprentice for a tempermental carriage maker named Edan. In this new town Nat learns of the on going interference of Parliament with their politics. Riots start to form and people start to blame the governor and threaten Edan because he makes carriages for him. Soon the war of words gives way to the war of bullets. Nat is also forced to choice between friendship and his master when he has to lend some of Basil's money to Moses who is trying to escape on a ferry. Nat loses his trust to Basil and works hard to try and gain it back. Though Nat has made some new friends along the way, some might get him into trouble in the future. His fellow apprentice Ben is a little too involved in these politics for Nat, but he soon gets Nat to come with him and some of his friends to steal guns from the local magazine so that they may join the revolution. They get into some trouble though when the British leave a trap to shoot anyone that comes into the magazine. Ben and Nat are injured but while Nat heals quickly, Ben was too hurt to join the rebeling forces. Basil and nat however, seeking revenge for what has happened to Ben, decide to join the army with Nat as a fifer. Nat soon has to face his old friend Moses who is a soldier on the British side. Nat is fighting for his freeedom while Moses is fighting for his. After the battle is over, Nat comes across a man with an unrecognizable face due to the pox. He soon finds out that it is his fatherand his father invites him to stay with him after the war. Though Nat is not still mad at his father for abandoning him, he does not wish to leave his true friend, Basil, but he does invite his father to come and visit him after the war. And so, Basil and Nat are off to face new challenges of the revolution together.

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