Overall, the messages are wary but hopeful about a better future for a brand-new country and for Isabel and Curzon to be able to live in freedom and without fear. Isabel and Curzon struggle with choosing sides and maintaining their friendship when they disagree about what to do. It has a lot of educational value, especially in lesser-known aspects of the Revolutionary War, such as women's roles alongside armies, and government policies and promises about freedom for former enslaved people who served in the war. There's one kiss, and feelings of attraction and affection are mentioned. Characters are in peril, either from battle or from being returned to slavery. Blood, injuries, and the horrors of war are occasionally mentioned but aren't gory or described in detail. Parents need to know that Ashes is the final book in Laurie Halse Anderson's The Seeds of America trilogy about the American Revolution. A woman smokes a pipe.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. It's also a reward for troops after battle success. Rum is used to relax an injured man enough to endure suturing without anesthetic his speech becomes slurred. Characters in peril from an overseer exhibiting drunken behavior. Soldiers drinking their pay and packs of drunken Loyalists mentioned. Isabel works in a tavern serving ale, wine, rum.
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