The horse-riding adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War messenger / by Marsha Amstel ; adapted by Amanda Doering Tourville ; illustrated by Ted Hammond and Richard Pimentel Carbajal.
Based on: Sybil Ludington's midnight ride. Minneapolis, Minn. : Carolrhoda Books, c2000.
Summary
In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and burning nearby Danbury, Connecticut.