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My Important Thoughts About The Book:
 The Hero of Ticonderoga
was originally going to be a historical novel about Ethan Allen. I had written a
paper on Ethan's book, The Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity,
while I was in college. While researching another college paper on folklore, I read
some of the folk tales that had grown up around him. (The story about the snake that
became drunk after biting him is a good example.) I was so certain that Ethan would
be a good subject for a book that I kept the note cards I made while writing my paper
about him. I still have them, though I don't know where. Anyway, I gave up my
plan for the historical novel before I'd written more than a few pages of the first draft,
but there was never any doubt that this book would involve Ethan Allen in some way.
The Critics' Important Thoughts About The Book:
 | Kirkus Reviews: "With her usual wry humor
and clear-eyed look at the world of children on the brink of adolescence, Gauthier
introduces a delightful, iconoclastic heroine...As Therese delivers one oral report after
another (Mr. Santangelo keeps reassigning the task until she gets it right) we get a look
at Allen as an outrageous hero: irreverent, intelligent, hard-drinking, rarely
missing an opportunity to make enemies, and possessed of an admirable and reckless
courage. In the smaller milieu of her school and her town (and except for the
drinking), Therese is much like her subject...we are left, in this satisfying read, with a
rich impression of a likable protagonist..."
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| Publishers Weekly: "Like Ethan Allen,
the subject of her oral school report, the narrator of Gauthier's amusing and affecting
novel, set in 1966 Vermont, is sassy, shrewd and outspoken. Tessy's voice crackles
with razor-sharp insight and comedic one-liners from the very start...Gauthier sustains
her tale's rapid pace and surefire humor throughout, while delivering a history lesson
that reader's will absorb effortlessly."
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| The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books:
"Background issues of sixth-grade squabbles, jealousies, and busted
friendships are right on the mark, and it's thoroughly refreshing to find a protagonist
who is a perfectly average student with parents who love her just the way she is."
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Other Stuff:
| Named a Notable Book for 2002 by the American Library
Association.
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| A Recommended Book on the TeacherSource page of the PBS Website.
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| Chosen as one of the New York Public Library's Children's Books
2001 - 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing List.
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| Listed in the 2001 Capitol Choices, Noteworthy Books for Children.
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| On the Recommended Book List for Hawaii's 2003 Nene Award.
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| Nominated for the 2003-2004 Prairie Pasque Award.
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