The Midwife's Apprentice

The Midwife's Apprentice is a book about a girl who only knows herself as brat, dung beetle, or beetle and tries to find a place in the world. She travels to different villages trading work for food and a place to sleep for the night. One day she uses a dung pile in one village to sleep in. When the village's midwife finds her, "dung beetle" asks if she can work in return for little food and a modest place to sleep. The midwife realizes that she can have this girl do most of her errands for barely any cost, so she accepts. When the midwife injures herself, Beetle is sent to go to a fair and buy certain items for canning and medicinal purposes. On the way home from the fair, beetle decides she needs a real name. Deeming herself Alyce, she travels home to the midwife. One day when the midwife goes to birth a child, she was asked to birth another child at the manor. Being her greedy self, Jane takes the job with more money involved and leaves Alyce to watch over the mother, but says not to do anything. Seeing the mother in such pain, Alyce births the baby, only to the anger of the midwife. When Alyce is asked to birth another baby and she fails, she runs away to an inn where she works in return for food and a bed. One day when Jane, the midwife, goes to the inn, she talks to a man there and implies that she doesn't want an apprentice that fails and runs away. She wants one that isn't afraid to fail and try and fail and try again. When Alyce hears this she goes back to Jane, but is not accepted. After thought she returns a second time saying, "Here I am, ready to try and fail and try again." Alyce is accepted and finally has a place and purpose in the world. I think this is a good book that includes a good moral. I hope you will read and enjoy it.

Mother Teresa: A Life Of Love

The story Mother Teresa: A Life Of Love By: Elaine Murray Stone is about Mother Teresa and her amazing work and service to god. First, Mother Teresa begins her missionary work and gets her call to poverty from god. Next, she vows to poverty and finds a building in which her newly created order can begin working with lepers. Later, Mother Teresa helps abandoned babies which finally, the world sees as enough work to begin awarding, interviewing and broadcasting Mother Teresa’s work. Presently, airlines began giving her free passes to anywhere the planes would go which made her inherit the name, The Flying Nun. Subsequently, she spoke out towards neglected children, men began joining the order and, to everyone’s sadness she had her first and second heart attack. In conclusion, Mother Teresa lived her last day, spoke her last words, and the world had a national day of mourning. Mother Teresa had a funeral at which 14,000 people attended, and it was a very sad day for all. Mother Teresa’s work was amazing and we should all try to follow her great example.

My Rating: 95.5%

Blood On The River

The book Blood On The River by Eliza Corbone is about an orphan boy named Samuel Collier and his journey to the New World. First, Samuel is arrested and is forced to become a page to Captain John who is in charge of the ship headed for the New World. The big step to the New World will take the entire James Town colony's cooperation and hard work. The problem is that the gentlemen that were sent by the Virginia Company to find gold and any other profit do not see it that way. They are set on making the commoners do all of the work. Captain Smith immeditly speaks agianst this and the rich members of the colony just as quickly dislike the Captian. The catch is that Captian Smith is the only one who can keep peace with the local natives, so he continues on being the leader. As life goes on, Samual sees that the "savages" have saved the colonists time after time, but not all the coonists agree that peace with the natives is nessisary to there survival. In the end, Samuel stays and enjoys life in the New World and the colony grows large!

    My Rating: 95%

The Freedom Factor

The book The Freedom Factor by Gerald N. Lund is about Bryce, a Senators aid, who changes his mind about overthrowing the constitutions checks and balances after realizing what the world would be like without them.  First, an original constitution signer by the name of Nathaniel Gorham visits Bryce during the height of his Senators campaign. Then, after many visits with Gorham, when Bryce refuses to change his place, Gorham sends him to a world where the constitution was never ratified. While Bryce is there the “police” hunts him because he was working for a man trying to overthrow the constitution but, he didn’t know that and he tried to help an organization called Save The Constitution. During his peril, he learns what a true world without the constitution would be like and he changed his belief for good.  In the end, he gets to go back to his world with the constitution and help in the act of its saving.

  My Rating: 90%