Night Journeys

This is my second Avi book and I enjoyed it almost as much as I did the first (which was about pirates, so you know I liked it more). Avi is great at placing readers into historical settings, and really captures the emotions of his young characters well. I enjoyed this book (despite being a little u......more

Peter York: By the grace of God, in the spring of 1768, he survived a terrible fever which swept through his town. That same fever, however, took the lives of everyone else in his whole family. Peter York was suddenly made an orphan at the age of 12, with nothing to call his own except an old mare h......more

“What Price, Freedom?” It is less than a decade before the American Revolution in Pennsylvania, across from the Jersey shore, when twelve-year-old Peter York finds himself an orphan--obliged to move in with a kindly but stern Quaker patriarch named Shinn. When the man assumes ownership of Peter’s ho......more

This book is a good option for children, especially pre-teens. It is definitely not engaging enough for adults. The story and narration are very simple and straightforward without much dept. So it is a very quick read. You can finish it just a couple of hours. I will not recommend it for adults, but......more