“How old are you Johnny?” she asked.
~Esther Forbes
“Sixteen.”
“And what’s that-a boy or a man?”
He laughed. “A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.”
(1997). “Johnny Tremain: and related readings”
American novelist, historian, and children’s writer, Esther Forbes was born on this day in 1891.
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