No Mountain too High

A story about Gladys Aylward
by Myrna Grant

Gladys had often wanted to go to China. One day she packed up her things and went to China to be a missionary. She told people about God. A Mandarin asked her to go around and make sure that the girl’s feet were not bound up. While she was going around she also told stories about Jesus. But there was a war going on and bombs fell on the town she was living in so she had to live in the mountains with all the children she was looking after. Then one day the war got so bad that she took a lot of children and went across the Yellow River to find safety. There were no boats going across the Yellow River but finally she managed to persuade a captain to take a boat with all the children across the river.

The Mayflower Secret

The Mayflower Secret
by Dave and Neta Jackson

Elizabeth was sailing on the Mayflower with her parents. One night the wife of Governor William Bradford was standing up on the deck and Elizabeth saw her. She was going to call out to her or get someone else but she didn’t and went back to her bed. In the morning the lady had disappeared. Nobody knew what had happened to her. They thought she must have fallen overboard.
When they arrived at Cape Cod everyone was settling in. All the time Elizabeth felt guilty about the death of Mrs Bradford. She thought that if she had called someone on the night she saw her, Mrs Bradford would not have fallen overboard. In the end she decides to go and tell Governor Bradford about it. He tells her that even if she had tried, she would not have been able to get Mrs Bradford away from the side because she was lonely and sad and also quite stubborn. So Elizabeth feels a lot better about it.

Kidnapped by River Rats

A Story about William and Catherine Booth
by Dave and Neta Jackson

This is about two children whose Father had died and Mother was taking them to find their Uncle. While they were trying to find him their mother died and the lady that they were staying with told them to get out. So they had to live on the streets. It was very hard for them. Once two people stole the sister. People would steal girls of her age to take overseas as slaves. Her brother went to the Salvation Army and asked for help to rescue her. When she was rescued, the brother and sister were taken to the house where Catherine Booth and her husband lived. They asked her if she knew where their uncle was because she used to have clothes made by him. She told them that he had left but that they could stay at their house. Then two of the people from the Salvation Army asked if they could adopt the two children. So they adopted them and the children were very happy.

Nate Saint

THE FATE OF THE YELLOW WOODBEE
The story of Nate Saint
By Dave and Neta Jackson
The villages thought that the people in the airplane were dangerous and wanted to attack them. But then they realized they were trying to be friendly and wanted to make contact with them. A man from the village who had seen the people in the airplane told a lie saying that they had tried to poison him and eat him and he had only just escaped. So the rest of the villages thought that the people in the airplane would try and kill them. So they decided to go and attack them. They took almost all the people in the village and went to attack those in the airplane. Niwa, a boy from the village, knew they were good people and tried to get ahead of the villages to warn them so they could get away. But he was too late and they were all killed.

A few years later, two wives of people in the airplane came to stay with the tribe. Niwa’s sister had run away but came back with the two women. So the tribe was excited about her return and they let the two women stay. In the end almost the whole tribe accepted Jesus and were saved.

Rescuer by night

RESCUER BY NIGHT
A story of AMY CARMICHAEL
by Kay Walsh
Amy rescued boys and girls who were sold into temple slavery by their parents. One of the girls she rescued had gone to live with a horrid lady who taught her and then whipped her when she made a mistake. Amy had at least 2 houses for the children to live in. She had a hard time and often grieved the death of one of the children or helpers. All the children loved her and called her mother.

The Children's Champion

THE CHILDREN’S CHAMPION
A story of GEORGE MULLER
by Irene Howat

George Muller started his life as a liar and a thief. Then the LORD changed him, and he became a Christian. He got married and decided to build an orphanage. He did not ask people for money. He always prayed for God to provide what they needed. He, his family and the orphans never went hungry. Sometimes he would be wondering what they would have for a meal and someone would come and give them enough for a meal. He did a lot of work through his life and when he died all the children that had lived in the orphanages were there, and a lot of other people to.

Ivan and the Daring Escape

IVAN and the Daring Escape
by Myrna Grant

Ivan’s friend has been taken away from his mother by the Moscow Secret Police because they wanted her to denounce her husband who was a good Christian. Ivan then used his talent in soccer to rescue his friend from the children’s home where he was “imprisoned”. And in doing this get the better of the Moscow Secret Police and also get his friend’s father out of prison.

What Katy Did

by Susan Coolidge
Katy was the oldest child in her family. Their mother was dead and they did not listen to their aunt that much. Katy was always doing something wrong and did not help at all. One day their aunt told them not to go on the swing that day, but Katy was in a bad mood and forgot that her aunt had told them not to and she went on it. She was swinging very high and suddenly it broke. Afterwards she had to stay in bed because she had damaged her legs when she fell, and could not walk.

Kathy’s cousin came and talked to her. She could not walk either. Then one day their aunt died, and then there was a big change in Katy and she became a big help. Then one day she stated standing a little at a time and then began walking around a little. Finally her dad said she could go down stairs so they set a day for her to go down. The day before she could go down, there was a big hustle because they were going to celebrate because she had to stay in bed for a very long time. On the day she went down stairs, when she walked into the room she saw her cousin. She forgot she could not run and ran to her.

Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann Wyss

A family gets stranded on an island. They get all the useful things off the ship and then they blow it up so that they can get all the wood. They found a big tree and make a house in its branches and a staircase going round inside the trunk (it was called Falconhurst). They also found a salt cave and made that into another house. Falconhurst was a summer home and the salt cave a winter one.

There were four boys. Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz. They had lots of animals, they even had an ostrich and buffalo. They even got to ride on them. Once they had a race and suddenly the mum and dad heard hooves and Franz came riding on his buffalo.

When the boys were older, Fritz went exploring on his own. When he got back he told them he wanted to show them something. So they follow him to a smaller island and he introduced them to a girl called Jenny. She stayed with them until one day a ship came. They were looking for Jenny to take her home. Fritz and Franz went with her. Fritz and Jenny got engaged. The rest of the family stayed on the island. They had named it New Switzerland.

Julie of the wolves

Miyax was lost in the Arctic. Thankfully her father had taught her some things. She finds a pack of wolves and manages to communicate with them. She pats the leader (his name is Amaroq) underneath his chin to show respect. She pats the pups and weakest wolf on top of their nose to show that they must show respect to her. When Miyax was young her father went out in a boat and never came back, so people thought he was dead. She said Amaroq was her adopted father. He brought food to her, he scared a bear away from her to protect her he even brought her to the wolf den to sleep. The leader pup, Kapu, would come and play with her. Once he came when she had finished cooking meat and she gave him some. He liked it so much that when he could catch something he brought it to her to cook. A while later he came back for some cooked meat.

She was running away to her pen pal. As she was getting close to the end of her journey an aeroplane came over and started to shoot at the wolves. They hit Amaroq and he died. They just wanted to get one of the ears for money. Afterwards Kapu became the leader. After a while Miyax finds her father. She was so happy that he was alive. But when she went into his house she saw a whole lot of American things and that he had married an American woman. Miyax did not want to go to her pen pal anymore because she was American and it was Americans that killed her adopted father. So when she saw the American things in her father’s house she left.
As she was going to the house she had made, her pet bird died. Then she realised that she could not survive alone. So Julie pointed her boots towards her father and happily went to him. She had been calling herself Miyax because she wanted so much to be an Eskimo and that was her Eskimo name.

A Little Princess

A comparison between the book and movies “A Little Princess”

One of the biggest changes that both movies made was that her Father did not die. In both movies he went to war, was injured and could not remember anything. In the old movie he was in hospital and Sara finds him. In the new movie he was in the house next door. They put this in because they don’t want it to be too sad.

In the old movie Sara throws soot on Lavina and her chocolates. In the new movie she throws soot down the chimney onto Miss Minchin. The reason the book is called “A Little Princess” is because even if Sara wanted to do something ugly to someone, she would think “a princess would not do that” and so she would have self control. The reason they put Sara throwing soot on them is because it is funny and most people would like to do that to the people that have been ugly to them. The movies do not show who Sara really is.

In the book Sara tells lots of stories. In the old movie they did not show Sara telling stories. In the new movie they start the movie with her telling a story and they show how the girls would crowd around her to listen. They also show how good Sara is at being a mother to Lotty.


In the book Sara goes next door to take the monkey back and asks the servant if she must give it to the master and she asks it in an Indian way and so they ask her how she knows that language. She tells them she was born in India and they asked her more questions and then found out that she was the girl they had been looking for. In both movies they have Sara running away from the police and Miss Minchin locks the door to her room. So Sara climbs out the window and goes over the roof into the neighbour’s house. They change it because it makes you excited and nervous.

In the old movie they don’t have a monkey living next door – they have a parrot. The parrot does not come and visit Sara but the monkey in the new movie does (although only once, when in the book he comes twice).

In the old movie they have Miss Rose and not Miss Minchin’s sister. Sara organises a tea party for Miss Rose and the man who teachers Sara horse riding. They are in love and he is about to go to the war. Miss Minchin comes in and destroys the tea party. They show how sad and lonely Miss Minchin is compared to the love and happiness that Miss Rose has. In the new movie Miss Minchin’s sister, Miss Amelia is in love with the man that brings the milk and at the end she runs away with him. They put these love stories into the movies because people like watching it.

I enjoyed the old movie because Miss Rose is so nice, I prefer the Sara in the new movie but the book is still the best.

Above all things

What I learned from the sermon “Above all things” by Alistair Begg

The only way we can know God is if He lets us.
God gave us a conscience.
Maybe your Mother is wondering why your bother is hiding behind the Christmas tree. It is because he ate tree chocolate ornaments and stamped on the forth one and his mother told him not to. So why is he hiding? Is it because his Dad said that if he did something naughty to hide behind the Christmas tree? No! It is his conscience.
We were made to praise God.

Region Ultimate Challenge

My day at Region Ultimate Challenge.
Saturday 19th September
Today when I woke up I was so excited. When we got there I had to find my group. There were so many people. We made butter, had our faces painted, made slime, played with a parachute and had a potato sack race, climbed through a spider web and after lunch all the Brownies had to go in a tent and try not to go past the pole in the middle. On the way home Mum asked what I liked best. I said I LOVED it all. It was an absolutely lovely day I will never forget.

My visit with Lynn

Today I went to Lynn. We made a flower saucer. Then we went to the shop and I got an ice-cream and a pony magazine. Then we went home and had lunch. After lunch we went to tail the lambs. It took ages. I had to chase a lamb back. Then I went home. I had so much fun. It was a lovely day.

The long winter

We have started a narration station and my first task was to pretend I was the main character and write a journal entry.

Journal entry of Laura from “The Long Winter”
Pa was at the shop today and an Indian came in and warned everyone that there was going to be a blizzard that would last for months. Pa said we have to move to town. I do not want to go to town because then I will have to go to school because Ma wants me to be a teacher. I wish Mary was not blind because then I would not have to be a teacher. Mary would love to be a teacher and she loves school.