![]() ![]() The focus is on 12-year-old Sophia's resolve to help bring the war to a close by spying for the American side. Parents need to know that Sophia's War by Newbery Award-winning author Avi is a historical novel set during the American Revolutionary War and involves Benedict Arnold's betrayal. ![]() Still, though these horrors are conveyed, they are not described in gratuitous detail.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. When she visits her brother in prison, the crowding, misery, and neglect of the prisoners is described in detail (according to the Author's Note, more American soldiers died in British prisons than on the battlefield during the war). ![]() The book opens with a hanging, Sophia's father is wounded by British soldiers, and the effects of war surround Sophia in the town of Manhattan, where she lives. ![]()
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