Home on Stoney Creek

We read this book in less than a week. It's a great read-aloud or personal reading. My daughters (7 & 10) loved it!

Eleven-year-old Sarah Moore was devastated when her father decided the family would move to the Kentucky frontier at the start of the American Revolution. She doesn't want to leave Virginia, where her friends and the only home she has ever known are, and she worries about her oldest brother, who has left home to join the Patriot army. She prays and prays to stay in Virginia but her prayers go unanswered. The journey through the wilderness to Kentucky is dangerous as the family struggles through forests, across rivers, and over mountains. Reaching Kentucky, the Moores must struggle to build a home in the untamed wilderness. Sarah is desperately lonely and longs for her home in Virginia, vowing to return as soon as she can. But as time goes by she begins to realize that home is not a place, but being with your family. I really liked the setting of this book and the details of pioneer life on the early frontier. I would recommend this book to young readers who enjoy stories about pioneer or colonial life. I look forward to reading the rest of the books in this series.

Home on Stoney Creek is a wonderful book. It takes you through the challanges that Sarah Moore faces leaving all that she knows, to go live in an untamed wilderness. It tells of the trials of moving, something many readers can relate to.