Rush Revre Summary

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There are four main characters in this story: Rush Revere, the alter ego of the author; Rush Limbaugh, His talking horse which travels through time with him; Liberty, the two students: Tommy; the football player who is secretly a nerd and Freedom who is a very smart pretty young woman. In the story Rush Revere takes a job as a substitute teacher in Manchester Middle School and surprises his students with his talking horse liberty, and the way he teaches them with time traveling adventures into american history. Rush jumps back into the year 1620 several times to teach his students the Puritan emigration to the United States of America. After the first jump into the past where he showed the class what it took to set up a colony in the New World. …show more content…

They also built forts, sword fought, explored “The New World”, spoke with extraordinary people like Squanto and William Bradford, and they witnessed the first Thanksgiving. In the end they return to modern day America and promise to each other that they won’t stop here, and they will continue with more adventures another day. I personally don’t like the book for a lot of reasons, First of all the Pilgrims weren't Americans. They were living under British rule and America didn't become a country until a lot later. The time travel. I won’t go into the details because time travel isn’t a real thing yet, but Rush tells the kids why they can’t mess with history by changing things and all he does throughout the book is interfere and talk to a lot of different important people that could change the history forever. He changes history just by watching these events. The horse. I really disliked the horse Liberty, he was so annoying and dumb. There was no logic to what he said.And, he said he is from the past and yet a few times in the book he seems to forget it. The native american named Freedom who can talk to animals and thinks Liberty is a spirt animal is kinda stereotypical. Also the way Rush writes about the native americans in general is really very

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