This book and the book Follow the River are both excellent depictions of the life of my ancestor. She was a heroic woman who shall be remembered and honored by me and all my family members. We are proud of her and are happy to have such excellent books to share.

Mary Ingles was courageous! I read it in one night and I'm going to read it again. I'd read about Mary Ingles in the book Follow the River, but I didn't know she lived in Lancaster or that her parents were Scotch Irish. This book tells about her whole life including escape from the Indians. That's the most exciting part though when she hikes 800 miles through rivers and mountains to get home and see her family. I think this is a very good book so I gave it five stars!

...Have you ever been abuse by a adult or you know someone who is been abuse by an adult. Forege by Fire by Sharon Draper you will experience the life a teenager boy who is been abuse by his abusive step dad. This book made me cry at first then rejoice at the ending.
When 9 year old Gerald favorite aunt dies he must to move with his mom,step dad, and his little step sister who always has sad eyes. At his new home he will experience the life his stepsister had already experience. He feels that is his job to save Angel his mom from Jordan (stepfather).
Sharon Draper did an Excellent job Making you feel the character emotions. When you read this book you will feel like you watching a move inside your head.She creates images in your head. For example Angel says "No Gerald, e didn't hurt me, but he scares me so bad." With this incridable worlds you see a scared little girl hugging her brother for a comfort. "Gerald said Nothing for a moment, but stared at Jordan with hatred and pain. His hand clenched in to tight,angry fists, threatened at any moment to explode with purple in Jorden's face." Sharon M. Draper chose to use words that are so simple and understandable. In this quote you can see an angry young man standing front of a a brutal step dad.You can see a real images in your mind in her powerful worlds she chose to use.
The author's massage in this book is not to stand around and wait for the abusive person to change, is to get help before is to late. This massage means a lot to me and the society, because teenagers like myself and others can learn a lesson if they suspect if some one is not treating them right. You can also learn the special relationship between brother and sister. when you finish with this book you thinking about the last book that got you emotion.

If you were 2 yeares old were would you be at right now... well Gerald from the forged by fire would proulblly be behimd the couch sucking his thumb because he lives in fear.The book forged by fire by sharon m. drapper is about a young boy named Gerald who has a gigantic imagination lives with his mom who is a drug attic and he doesn't seem how to escape it.This fiction is very suprising and it tells you so much that you only half to read ten pages.This book takes place in Gerald's mind and other houses.The plot of this book is that Gerald plays with his mom's lighter and uses it for G.I. Joe and then acceldently sets the house on fire and lives with his auntt but then he goes back to his moms and Gerald finds some thing out really bad.
This book has alot of conflicts in the story by mistakes an problems people have been having.The conflict for Gerald is that he has a hard time standing up for him self because of the consaqences.Gerald has a lot of charecteristics with his aunt one of them is that they deeply love each other and that they have funb together and notice that he dosen't do it with his mom.The theme of this book is that you should stand up and don't keep your feeling's inside because it will hurt you more.Each day there are great ways to live your life,live it your way.

The book I read was Forged by Fire. I thought this was a good book to read. I think is a good book for people especially for teenagers. The reason why I it's good for teenagers because the book was basically telling about most teenagers life and what they go through everyday. Childern getting abuse, parent negating there child, parent on drugs, and tthe child wound up feeling unwanted and lost. But as far as all this bad thing that happen let me talk about the character: brother Gerald which is being negated, his little sister Angel which is feeling lack of love, there mothere Monique which is on drugs and don't really care about her kids, Gerald's stepfather, Monique husdand, Angel father Jordan which is very controlling and won't every thing his way or no wat. Then their Aunt Queen the family 's aunt, she was the love of the family.

I think that this book wounld have been papular if the whole class would have read it together. The reason why I say this because after Iread the first pages I had wanted to know what was going to happen next. I think everybody who read and dislike to read would have read this book. Because this is basically telling about everyday life. I think I would read another book by this author because this book is good and i want to find what happens next. It's like another chapter. You just can't stop reading it. On the scale of one thougjh five, I would give it an five.