What Riley's Reading

Brady
November 30,2007

A novel about sacrificing, trust and having a lot of guts, Brady by Jean Fritz is a book that will make you realize that sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for others In their time of need. This book has a great plot about friendship, trust and love,
Brady is about a young boy named Brady. He lives with his mother and father. part of the time he has his grandmother, his cousin Mary Dorcas and his aunt and uncle living with him. He also has one older brother who lives at a college in Washington named Matt. Brady’s father is a pastor and he has his own sermon house. He never lets anyone in the house and there is a reason for that, Brady’s father is a secret undergroind railroad worker. He helps runaway slaves get to the free states. One day while Brady walks past the sermon house the door is always locked, but this time it is not, so he goes in. it turns out that there is a little boy named Moss who is a run away slave. Brady is so shocked that he could not say anything. Brady and Moss become secret friends but finally Brady had to say goodbye.
While Brady is away visiting Matt at college he gets home sick and goes home. As Brady gets home his barn is on fire. At first his thought is to scream but he couldn’t even if he wanted to. So Brady gets all the horses out of the barn and ties them to trees far away from the burning barn. While he is getting one of the three horses he sees Laben Williams, a city trouble maker. Brady wants to run after him and turn him, in but he just got the horses out.
Once all the horses are alright, then Brady yells for his Pa. His dad is there along with his mother and they are fighting the fire. while they are doing that a piece of wood comes down on his father’s leg and it knocks him unconscious. Brady and his mother pull his father out.
The night before the fire was started his father was supposed to deliver a buggy full of house hold goods to his uncle. Along with the package for his uncle he hides Moss under blankets and several old coats. Brady decides to deliver the package without permission while his dad is in bed rest from his leg. His father does not know that Brady knows about Moss. So Brady delivers everything and gets back home safely. Then he tells his father everything and that day his father decides to write in the family’s Bible that that day Brady Menton went from a boy to a man.
Fritz wants you to walk away with the sense that no matter how small you are you can still help save people’s lives.
This book is a really good book and if you can read, you should read this one. It is very addicting.