"A Dangerous Search" is historic fiction based on actual events in the Revolutionary War and some of the important African American men who shaped those events. Tobias Gardner, a twelve-year-old free black in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775, meets up with African American militia men Peter Salem, Lemuel Haynes, and Barzillai Lew, all real figures from history, and encounters Prince Hall and George Middleton, two African American men who were leaders of Boston's black community at the time. Tobias becomes a drummer in a regiment and joins other black patriots, including actual Afican American hero Salem Poor, in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Primary sources relating to and biographical information about the historical figures featured are included at the end of the book. For grades 4-6.