Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Genre: Historical Fiction
In this book a young man named Daniel has just freed his friend Joel from the Romans with a group of boys against the Romans. Daniel has also discovered that his younger sister, Leah, said to be full of Demons, was talking with a Roman over their garden wall. Daniel was furious and yelled at his sister to never talk to him again. Leah did not know what was so wrong about it because the roman was doing no harm. He only talked, in the little Israelian he knew, to Leah about his family and how he missed them. He even gave Leah a fruit basket. The Roman was very nice and did not harm, but Daniel despised the Romans no matter how nice they were. After yelling at his sister he realized the the Roman did no actual harm. His sister was quiet and did not speak to Daniel, or even seem to notice that he was there. She at almost no food and did nothing but sit on the ground. Daniel had spent months trying to get Leah to be okay with him being around, but all of that went down the drain. Daniel felt really sorry for what he did, but he could not get Leah to trust him anymore.
I think that it will take a while before Leah will trust Daniel again and that Daniel will learn to love the Romans.
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