My Summer Reading List: A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker


A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker

In Farmington, Massachusetts, in 1839, nine-year-old Ethan experiences hardships as an indentured servant of the wealthy Lyman family alongside Daniel, a boy scorned simply for being Irish, and the boys bond as they try to right a terrible wrong.

This book is historical fiction about the life of an indentured servant of the 1800s. It is interesting to see this perspective--we are often exposed to the idea of slavery and understand that horror. An indentured servant also lived a life of slavery, and many had the actual hope of paying their debt and becoming free.

3-Average book--would probably recommend. This is an William Allen White list book.

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