David and Eunice Sutherland Burgess Lecture
Award-Winning Author Laurie Halse Anderson on
Rebellion 1776
Laurie Halse Anderson
The smallpox epidemic is the focus of
Rebellion 1776, Laurie Halse Anderson’s compelling new middle-grade historical novel about a girl struggling to survive amid the epidemic, the public’s fear of inoculation, and the seething Revolutionary War. Thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper, a kitchen
maid to a judge, survives the Siege of Boston only to find herself in a dangerous situation as British troops leave the city, her Loyalist employer leaves with them, and her father goes missing, leaving her alone. While she works in the large household of
Mr. Pike, a wealthy Patriot spy, Elsbeth searches the city for her father. Then smallpox reaches the family, and Elsbeth, who survived an earlier infection, must nurse them through the inoculation process.
7:00 p.m., Monday, April 13
Opperman Auditorium, Park Library
A reception and book signing will follow this event in the Clarke.
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