There, on the battlefield, he learns from Dr. After a period of despair and humiliation, Johnny becomes a dispatch rider for the Committee of Public Safety, a job that brings him in touch with Otis, Hancock, John and Samuel Adams, and other Boston patriots, and with all the exciting currents and undercurrents that were to lead to the Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington. He is gay and clever and lords it over the other apprentices until the tragic day when a crucible of molten silver breaks and Johnny’s right hand is so burned as to be useless. Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. It was first published in 1943 by Houghton Mifflin. Johnny Tremain is written by Esther Forbes.
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