“Eight-year-old Sara Elizabeth has just started a brand new year of school, but doesn't like it. If she had her way, she would just quit and never return. She's just too scared, to be honest. However, when Grand Doll visits the school and shares the story of Victoria Grace, a little girl from their family who lived during the time of the Revolutionary war, Sara learns that God can give her the courage she needs to face life's many challenges.”
Series: Book #2 in “The Eleanor” series. Review of Book #1 Here!
Spiritual Content- Joshua 1:9 in the acknowledgments; Scriptures are read, remembered, quoted, mentioned, & thought over; Many Prayers; Church going, singing hymns, & sermons; Many talks about God, Him helping us and being with us, & trusting Him; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Victoria Grace renews her commitment to follow Christ; Many mentions of God, Jesus Christ, trusting Him, & His will; Many mentions of prayers, praying, & praising God; Many mentions of churches, church going, services, sermons, hymns, & a reverend; Mentions of Bibles, Bible reading, & those and events from the Bible; Mentions of blessings & being Blessed; A few mentions of the freedom to worship as one chooses; A couple mentions of schools no longer have the Ten Commandments hanging up or a prayer at the start of the day nowadays; A mention of a godly man.
Negative Content- Crying over a death & Fainting (barely-above-not-detailed); Set during the Revolutionary War & many mentions of the war, battles, fighting, deaths, grief, injuries, & Victoria Grace helping the wounded (barely-above-not-detailed); *Spoilers* One of Victoria Grace’s classmates goes off to join the army to fight and ends up dying, which Victoria Grace witnesses when he is brought in with other wounded soldiers for treatment; Victoria Grace sees the boy’s mother sobbing and she also cries *End of Spoilers*; Victoria Grace is teased by a classmate (calling her “teacher’s pet” and “carrot top” plus also pulling on her hair and dipping her braid into his inkwell; She does not tell the teacher as the boy had already been to the corner as a punishment that day; He later apologizes); Mentions of giving stitches, injuries, pain, & blood/bleeding (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of brothers fighting & injuring the other; A few mentions of other wars & deaths; A couple mentions of Indian uprisings;
*Note: The famous quote “Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their eyes!” is said twice and explained; Victoria Grace wants to be a doctor and when her brothers tell her she can’t because she’s a girl, she moans inside her head that “she would never understand why boys got to do so much more than girls” (one brother says that a teacher is a suitable job for a girl, but Victoria Grace still thinks it’s unfair she can’t be a doctor; She starts to be an assistant to her town’s doctor and works alongside him taking care of injured people and wounded soldiers; Later, she realizes she can never be a real doctor, but wants to continue working alongside the town doctor); A couple mentions of a husband/grandfather having to live in a nursing home (Sarah Elizabeth’s grandfather); A couple mentions of a quote from author & book series (Mark Twain & Little House on the Prairie).
Sexual Content- N/A.
*Note: Victoria Grace’s best friend says that she wishes she was half as smart as her and Victoria Grace responds that she wishes she was half as pretty as her friend; A mention of a couple that was “never blessed with children” (said by the wife).
-Sarah Elizabeth
-Victoria Grace McElyea, age 11-13
P.O.V. switches between them (Jennifer in Prologue & Epilogue only)
Set in present day (prologue & epilogue) & 1775-1776
209 pages
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My personal Rating-
Set before and during the Revolutionary War, this was a great book to read around the Fourth of July!
Like the first book in this series, the prologue and epilogue are in a modern girl’s POV and the majority of the book is following a young girl living in a historical time; in this book, we follow Mary’s daughter, Victoria Grace, living in 1775-1776.
This story was very faith-filled and had a major emphasis on trusting in the Lord and being courageous. While I’m not usually a big fan of reading this time-period (I’m more of an early 1900s fan), I truly appreciate my American freedom and enjoyed seeing Victoria Grace’s passion and her story. There was also bonus content like questions to ponder, historical facts, how to play pretend with creating a one-room schoolhouse supplies and setting, and even a devotional-like section about courage.
See y’all on Friday with a new review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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