Dream Seekers: Roger William's Stand for Freedom (American Adventure) - Hardcover

Lough, Loree

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791050432 ISBN 13: 9780791050439

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Philip Smythe, beset with the problems of moving from Plymouth to Boston, meets a mysterious Indian, who may be a friend or an enemy

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Book Description:

History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that shaped our nation.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 5-8-John Smythe, 12 years old in Plymouth Pioneers, and his sister Sarah, 10, have come on the Mayflower to the New World. As Separatists, the Smythes believe in practicing their faith in daily life, and their first year in North America gives them ample opportunity to do that. The family reappears in Dream Seekers, although John and Sarah are now grown and their brother Phillip, 12, is front and center. Pioneers has the inherent drama of the desperate fight to survive in alien surroundings, but is weakened by a tendency to substitute descriptions of physical attributes for character development; mixed in is some degree of telling rather than showing. Dream Seekers has more convincing characterization, although Mr. Smythe is drawn as substantially more stern by Lough than by Reece. Seekers also has uneven plotting, with characters appearing, disappearing, and reappearing randomly. The Roger Williams tie-in of the subtitle is all but dropped about one-fourth of the way through. Dialogue in both books ranges from obviously historical, such as "aye" for "yes," to curiously modern such as, "Wait up!" The strength is in the children's repeated struggles to choose appropriate behavior and to depend on God in difficult circumstances. For libraries with a high demand for Christian fiction, the depiction of faith applied could override the general mediocrity of the writing.-Faith Brautigam, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL

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About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0791050432
• ISBN 13: 9780791050439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136