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The Tale of two Dragons

Allo mate! Today, I’ll tell ye all about the Silver Birch book called, “The Dragon Prince” by “Vicki Blum”. So, there are two dragons, Ember and Brand. Ember is a green female dragon; she has multi-personalities and is hard to describe. For example she was trying to protect the kid that appeared in her cave but when she went with Brand to talk with Cidrok (a dragon of legend) and when Cidrok said that one of his men was going along to deliver the boy, she changed her mind and tried to run (or fly) away. But in the middle of their journey, she got along with Prince Shadrel (the kid’s name) and Yemah (Cidrok’s man’s name). Brand on the other hand, is a red male dragon; he is one of the offsprings of Shadrel’s father (a dragon lord) ‘s dragon. Brand is determined to deliver the prince to Kowtow where Shadrel’s father rules as king. He’s also brave when he fought the brood father (the leader of their group of dragons) at the shores of Kowtow– and nearly died, meaning he is also loyal to not let the others die.

I would like to be their friend since they are both very different from each other and it would also be interesting to see creatures from another world. They could also protect me from danger and I could teach them more about us humans so they know what to do and not to do.

There are minor characters that made this book be possible: Shadrel, Brood Mother and Father, Cidrok, Yemah, Hafen (the sea serpent that carried Ember, Brand, Yemah and the Prince to Kowtow), King Briais (Shadrel’s father) and Licea (the healer).

This story was starting in Ember’s cave, in Callore and in an unknown time… There was a kid (the prince) in her cave when she woke up; the kid made a sneezing sound and Brood Mother (the protector of the young dragons) came to take the kid to be eaten by B.F. (Brood Father). Ember asked for Brand’s help when she met him. They then got the prince out to the mountains when they noticed that the prince could use magic. In the mountains they met Cidrok, along with his human friends. Cidrok told Ember and Brand all they needed to know for sending Prince Shadrel to his father, King Briais in Kowtow. Ember and Brand also took one of Cidrok’s men called Yemah with them. On the way, they met an unexpected surprise– an ambush by desert people in the desert! The desert people tried to extract information about the whereabouts of the king, however, just in the nick of time did locusts show up, making the desert people run away and the Prince used his magic to tell the locusts to cut their ropes; with that, they escaped. After a few days, they reached the great sea and called a sea serpent, Hafen, to carry them to Kowtow. Not long after, Brood Father and a swarm of scout dragons appeared in the sky and Brand took into the sky and had a raging battle with Brood Father. Meanwhile, Ember went underwater when Hafen did, wondering what happened to Yemah and the Prince, and found the Prince and Yemah safe, but she saw Brand badly hurt from the battle. Luckily, Brood Father was driven away. Ember got them all on the shore and Yemah told her where to go and what to do. She went to the King’s castle and told him what happened and after Ember took a rest, the king got a healer, Licea and took off to the shore. Unfortunately, desert people have landed on the shores and were attacking and a battle went on while Ember’s little group got back to the castle. Licea healed Brand but he seemed to be still sleeping so Ember focused on Brand and appeared in his dream, trying to convince him to wake up. He woke up after a while of convincing and they prepared to leave unnoticed when the townspeople were outside just waiting for them. Brand got told by the king about his father– Skortch, the king’s dragon. Yemah told the folks ’bout their adventures and they went away calling a whale to carry them. When they arrived at Cidrok’s mountain, Cidrok taught the youngsters what they needed to know and told Brand about using magic wisely. Ember and Brand flew off. When stumbling upon a pool, they looked into it seeing that they have grown much from their adventure. They then flew off to find Skortch in the far north.

If I met the author of this book, I’d ask, “Who are you most like in the book?” or “Where did Kowtow and Callore’s names come from?” and “Is there a continuation of this book?” I’m curious about the names that she came up with for the places and I ‘d like to read the continuation too.

I’d recommend this book because it is a fiction-type of book with dragons and other mythological beings, full of imagination. I also like books about fiction adventure– like “Eragon”. These kinds of books can let us be pulled from the real world sometimes (the mind actually). Here is the end of my tale so go and enjoy this book!

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Pathway to Freedom

News: Slaves for sale, runaway slaves, abolitionist wrecks havoc $1200 reward for apprehending him… *tosses newspaper aside*

Slave owners some hundred years or so ago… can’t get enough slaves… horrible humans. Hun? Oh! Right, as you heard, there’s slavery aboard in USA early as I can remember… Yes, bad time to be in!

Getting back, this book we’ve been reading is Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker! It is a tale of courage, hope, slavery, and much others. Two black slave girls taken from their families, were planning to escape to Canada because of all the insanity on that god-forsaken no-good plantation of those Rileys… those two girls are called… Julilly (or June Lilly) and her friend, Liza!

Julilly is a tall, strong kid and is still growing, as her mom and Sims (the overseer for the Rileys’ plantation) had said near the beginning (big for her age of 12). She is thoughtful; she always looked out for Liza. She is also very courageous; she planned to escape to Canada no matter the cost and she got water for the children in the wagon when they were thirsty, since no one else dared. Oh, she’s quite clever for a slave girl and she’s also very kind-hearted. She did seem to know what to do when they were all thirsty in the wagon; when she poured water over the three mens’ legs in the wagon and during their escape, she told Liza that they were in Canada when Liza thought they were exposed in public.

Liza is bent-backed from too much beatings, and… quite the opposite of Julilly. She’s thankful when Julilly picked the higher branches, also, she’s kind by being the only person in the plantation to talk with Julilly. But she’s tough on the inside like Julilly. Determined too, like Julilly, they want one thing–escape. Liza is mostly like Julilly in a lot of ways and not much differences.

I’d like to be their friend in that they are very determined like a T- Rex, waiting for the right time then… springs into action! And I also feel responsibility for almost everything on this land!!!

Here are some of the minor characters that made this book possible: Mammy Sally, Adam, Lester, Ben, Sims, Mr. Ross, Levi Coffin, slave owners, slave hunters, Slaves, innocent bystanders and members of the Underground Railway.

This story starts about 150 years ago, in southern USA, Henson plantation near Richmond, Virginia. It was morning… Missy Henson sold her slaves to slave traders who were from the deep south and the slaves include Julilly who got separated from her mother; her mom told her about not forgetting Canada, the country that lets everyone in there be free, when they got separated.

When Julilly arrived at the Riley’s plantation in the deep south, she met Liza, the only girl in the cabin that talked to her and Liza also knew about Canada.

The plantation was a HORRIBLE place to be in! The owner feeds food to slaves which they usually feed pigs; the cabins are dark, smelly and creepy at night in the fields; the overseer whips whoever works slowly and there is only a 15-minute break in the whole 4 a.m.- 10 or 11 p.m.

One day, A. Ross, an abolitionist of the Underground Railroad arrives at the plantation as a visitor, saying he is a Canadian bird-studier and picks Adam and Lester, two of the three slave men that walked with the wagon to the Riley’s plantation, to help him navigate through the forest. After, Julilly and Liza met Mr.Ross at night, planing to escape. They find a helper of Mr.Ross and the man drives them to an abandoned farm, not long afterward, Adam and Lester were caught. Then the girls start journeying to Canada… alone.

On their journey, they live on a few berries and water but when they try to ask for some food from a woman in a hut, she threatens them away with a gun. Their luck finally showed up when they met a white man that took them to the Appalachians where they met the Mennonites, people who spoke “German” and they got a bath, food and rest until the next day, when slave traders came to the village to find the runaway slaves.

They ran, but not far when a ferocious storm kicked up and they were forced to take shelter under a rock; after they got down from the mountains, they met a generous old slave man that gave them his food to help and went back to work.

They followed some train tracks to Jeb Brown’s, a kind black man working for the Underground Railroad that hides and rows black slaves across the Ohio; they got food and learned about the Underground Railroad, an organization of black and white people revolving against slavery secretly by helping slaves sneaking away to Canada, but after a sheriff came, that meant their visit was over and they were rowed across after they hid in the upstairs and were met by an Underground Railroad member in a horse-drawn wagon and he rode them to Levi Coffin (the “president” of the Underground Railroad) ‘s home.

They ate and got clothes there as well as hid there when another sheriff came to the home; soon after Julilly and Liza’s visit, the two girls left on a horse-drawn carriage and were dropped off at a REAL railroad station where they were in bags to be disguised as “dried goods” and they spent time on the train eating and were met by Mr.Ross at one station and went to a ship– The Mayflower and were then met by the captain, who showed them their cabin on the ship and told them about how to open the door.

Soon after, there were slave hunters aboard to search the ship top to bottom so the captain hid the girls in the lifeboat where they had some food and when the captain returned with the men some time after they didn’t find the slaves and they sailed away.

The next day Julilly, Liza and the captain arrived at Canada, and they saw a man waving towards them when they remembered they were in Canada–FREE! They were then rode to St. Catherine’s, a small city in southern Canada, Lester (who also escaped) ‘s new job town and he held a surprise… see later.

Julilly and Liza found out even though they were free, they couldn’t read but they met a person they haven’t met in a long time– Mammy Sally (Julilly’s mom). Yes, Julilly was ENLIGHTENED. They talked about their adventure to Canada and Mammy Sally sang words that turned to a song. Each one of them had a future to think about, living on the new free land.

If I ever met the author of this book, I’d ask some questions such as, “Interesting story, but are you going to write some more?” or “Are you going to write your own introduction?” Because I see L.H.’s but not B.S.’s and I enjoyed this story very much, lots of suspense– and you can shape a small and blurry picture of what it says in the book. Well written and yes, I like these kinds of books and much others.

I’d recommend this book to lots of people; it tells how life was like back then, how cruel slave traders were, how gracious the abolitionists were and how difficult it is for them to take even two slaves across the border. This book is also excellent for history learners or non-history learners to have a view of the past.

In the book, the blacks of St. Catherine can’t read or write. So if I was the mayor of that town, first, I would build a school there and provide supplies for the blacks. Then, if the whites and blacks get along, I can move the students from the blacks’ school into the whites’ school; if not then I’ll keep things the way they are. Finally, I’ll let the blacks have a few more jobs and raise their salary by 5%.

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