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"(Don't ever hit yourself in the head. It makes all things more difficult, and you have only yourself to blame.)"

—Rebellion 1776, P. 310

Laurie Halse Anderson's manner of building narrative momentum via her weighty, textured writing is unrivaled. It's like hitching a ride atop a freight train whose speed only ever increases.

"'Tis one thing to declare independence...Quite another to achieve it."

—Rebellion 1776, P. 219