Although she's a well-educated young woman who is well-versed in all the revolutionary rhetoric of the time, Sophia can't help herself when she becomes infatuated with the handsome and charming British officer, John Andre, who is billeted with her family. Twelve-year old Sophia Calderwood adores her older brother, William, who has enlisted in the revolutionary army. The novel opens in 1776 in loyalist-occupied New York City, the same setting for Laurie Halse Anderson's Seeds of America novels Chains, and Forge. Like that celebrated adventure/historical nove, Sophia's War features an indomitable young heroine, who thrusts herself in the center of political and military intrigue during one of the most famous betrayals in American history. This is definitely my favorite Avi novel since The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. The versatile Avi, who won a Newbery years back for his historical novel Crispin: The Cross of Lead, pens a real historical thriller in his latest novel, Sophia's War, set during the American Revolution.
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