Margery Evernden's Wilderness Boy is an engaging historical novel for young adults set in the summer of 1794, when sixteen-year-old Jonathon Garrett gets caught up in the Whiskey Rebellion. The uprising is in protest to a tax imposed on the new federal government and the first real test for the newly created United States of America. Originally published in 1955, Wilderness Boy has been newly reissued with a forward by Margaret Mary Kimmel and a one-page afterword. A timeless children's classic of struggle and hope.

"Something was not right in Bobe's old house on St. James Place. First there was the uneasy silence between Becka's parents, Patrick and Judith's bewilderingly generous praise for her daughter's musical talent. And finally, most misteryously, there was Becka's great-grandmother's baffling determination to move from her memory-laden old house to a nursing home.

As Becka struggles to unravel all these tangled threads, she stumbles upon yet another secret-an acount of Bobe's Polish childhood, rich in music and in dreams, and of her youthful journey across the ocean to America. For Becka, Bobe's past casts a revealing light on the present and gives her the confidence to take the first steps in shaping her own future."

In my opinion, this is a great book, which at the beginning seems boring but as the story unveals and Bobe's past is revealed. It gets very interesting. An awesome story. You should read it...