A Spy in Old West Point Book Review

A Spy in Old West Point is written by Anne Emery. A Spy in Old West Point is a story about a 14 year old boy named Jock Fraser in the midst of the Revolutionary War. Jock is the son of George Fraser, a gunsmith who's forge is well known throughout the area. One stormy day, a stranger comes up their road on his horse and stops in front of their house. When he is invited inside he drops a little piece of paper in their bellows near their fire-place. No one in their family sees this except Jock. When the Stranger is packing up to leave he says that if someone comes to their house and says he fights for the Liberty Tree to let him inside their house. Many days later a man comes up to their house, says he fights for the Liberty Tree and is let inside. When the man is let inside, Jock sees him pick up the paper in between their bellows and drops another one in the same spot. So this pattern continues, when one day a man walks up their driveway. The man explains that his name is

Dick Conway a British deserter who used to be a gunsmith's apprentice. When Jock introduces Dick to his father, Dick shows them his gun. Dick's gun was called a Ferguson, a short rifle that loads twice as fast as a regular rifle. When Dick is invited to come and work at Jock's home as a apprentice, Jock's father tells Dick to hide his valuable gun so that no one could see it and try to steal it. For the next year Dick continues to work for Jock's Father when Jock's Father is kidnapped because he was unable to pay his bills (due to the fact that he was unable to make new guns because of iron prices). Jock decides to try to get his father back and grabs the Ferguson gun, when the gun is stolen! How will Jock get his father and the Ferguson! Continue the struggle to survive with Jock's family during the Revolutionary War.

Redwall Book Review



Redwall is written by Brian Jacques. Redwall is the first book in the Redwall series. Matthias is a young, bumbling mouse who lives at the peaceful Redwall Abbey. Redwall Abbey is home to many woodland creatures. After a feast at Redwall Abbey, Matthias and a badger named Constance escort a two mice families to their home, when they are ran of the road by an evil rat named Cluny the Scourge. Matthias and the rest rush back to the Abbey to warn them of Cluny. After a meeting with Cluny, the Abbot realizes that they must prepare for an attack from the dangerous Rat. After many skirmishes the tapestry of Martin the Warrior (the founder of the Abbey) is stolen! Matthias decides he is going to try to take back the Tapestry of Martin the Warrior as the epic battle between Cluny and the Peaceful Redwallers continues.

Iron Scouts of the Confederacy Book Review

     The Iron Scouts of the Confederacy is written by Lee McGiffin. The Iron Scouts of the Confederacy is a non-fictional story that takes place during the Civil War through the eyes of a 14 year old boy named Ben Fane.

Ben lives on a farm in Alabama with his older Brother Gant. Ben and Gant's mother died when they were young so their father had to raise them alone. When the Civil War began Ben's father goes and joins the war where he dies. One day Ben runs into a stranger named Shelby Harris, a Texan who is going to join the Iron Scouts. The Iron Scouts are an elite group of Confederate Scouts under Wade Hampton, a General in the Confederacy. Shelby convinces Gant to go with him to join the Iron Scouts. After Ben is forbade to go with Gant and Shelby because he is to young, he is left to their rich neighbors to be taken care of while Gant is gone. After his brother is gone for weeks,

Ben decides to run away and join his brother in the Iron Scouts! Join him as he travels north on a journey of a lifetime!