Home on Stoney Creek (Sarah's Journey Series #1)
Gr. 4^-6. When 11-year-old Sarah Moore reluctantly leaves her home in Kentucky to travel with her family to Virginia in 1775, her feelings alternate between curiosity about her new life and longing for the past. Although she is hardworking and obedient, she is bitter that God would expose her family to such harsh new circumstances. A year later, when she travels back to Virginia and stops by her old home place, she discovers that a true home is not a physical place but the spirit of the family that lives there. The epiphanous final scene is poorly paced, but Luttrell turns over a convincingly unromanticized portrait of frontier life. Like Laura Ingalls Wilder, she provides rich detail about homesteading and quaint folk expressions, which make this a fine beginning for a new fiction series.Shelly Townsend-Hudson