title: Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks, Above-Level Grade 3.1 Theme 1 - Abigail's Drum
author: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
description: During the War of 1812, when British soldiers threaten the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, young Rebecca Bates and her sister Abigail, daughters of the local lighthouse keeper, find a way to save both him and the town.
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  ## Contents
  
  
  [Foreword](foreword.html)
  
  
  [INTRODUCTION: Rebirth of a Nation](partintro.html)
  
  
  [1 Writing History with Lightning](ch01.html)
  
  
  [The Birth of a Nation ](ch01.html#ch01sec1lev1)
  
  
  [The Facts of Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan ](ch01.html#ch01sec1lev2)
  
  
  [The Embellished History ](ch01.html#ch01sec1lev3)
  
  
  [2 The Rumblings of Revolution](ch02.html)
  
  
  [The Paris Commune: An Example 