The Prize: Tales from a Revolution is a fictional novel written about a young man named Caleb, who lives in the years near the beginning of the American Revolution. Caleb’s father has been enlisted into the local militia, and it is up to Caleb and his younger brother Samuel to take care of the family farm for their mother. Caleb longs for his father, and wonders if the distant fighting will ever cease, allowing his father to return. However, the fighting between the colonists and the redcoats becomes less than distant.