Firebrand

Name: Firebrand
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aaron Barnhart
ISBN: 9780966925814

Author: Aaron Barnhart

Narrator: Aaron Barnhart

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quindaro Press

Published: 10/01/2016

Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Historical Biography, History, Jewish History

Synopsis

1848. The Bondi family is leaving for a better life in America. But 15-year-old August doesn't want to go. He's found his life's purpose in Vienna, fighting on the barricades against a tyrant king. But in America, August discovers a new cause after confronting the evil of slavery. Though he loves his life of freedom, the young firebrand ultimately heads to Bleeding Kansas and casts his lot with the notorious John Brown.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clif

Here's an action-packed true story that will compete well for the attention of young readers. An additional bonus is that readers will be left with an enhanced knowledge of some mid-nineteenth century history. Firebrand tells the story of August Bondi (1833-1907) who as a young man seems to have had......more

Goodreads review by Jim

What a wonderful book to introduce people to the personal nature of the fight for liberty.......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

August Bondi, a native Austrian who immigrated to the US in the mid 1800s, is the star of the new novel Firebrand by Aaron Barnhart. Firebrand is a fictionalized biography of the real August Bondi, an abolitionist who fought with John Brown during the Bleeding Kansas conflict. Barnhart's novel is ba......more