Buku Daughters of the Faith Series – Wendy Lawton

 This package includes four books of the Daughters of Faith Series Set 2:  Freedom’s Pen, Courage to Run, The Hallelujah Lass, and Ransom’s Mark.

 There are a few elements of the Daughters of Faith Series that separate  it from many other children’s book biographies. First, these books are  about little girls. They are not biographies of the entire life of these  characters- these are stories about girls who made a difference while  they were still young. This enables the young girl readers to relate to  the characters more than they would if these characters had to wait  until they were thirty or forty before doing anything significant.  Second, these stories are faith journeys. Lawton gets inside the minds  of these girls in order to portray their struggles to make God an active  part of their lives.

 In Freedom’s Pen, Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight  years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a  slave in 1761. But she didn’t let her circumstances keep her down. She  learned to read and write in English and Latin, and showed a natural  gift for poetry. By the time she was twelve, her elegy at the death of  the great pastor George Whitefield brought her worldwide acclaim.  Phillis became known to heads of state, including George Washington  himself, speaking out for American independence and the end of slavery.  She became the first African American to publish a book, and her  writings would eventually win her freedom. More importantly, her poetry  still proclaims Christ almost 250 years later.

 In Courage to Run, Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland  plantation in the 1800’s. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at  every turn. Should she obey her masters or listen to her conscience?  This story from Harriet’s childhood is a record of courage. Even more,  it’s the story of God’s faithfulness as He prepares her for her adult  calling to lead more than 300 people out of slavery through the  Underground Railroad.

 In The Hallelujah Lass, Lawton tells the story of Eliza Shirley, a  16-year-old girl who traveled from England to pioneer the work of the  Salvation Army in the United States. As a teenager growing up in  nineteenth-century England, Eliza was the picture of a proper young  lady. But she longed for more than an ordinary, middle-class life. When a  group of Hallelujah Lassies marches into Coventry with a ragtag bunch  of followers, singing and banging tabourines, even ensuing riots cannot  keep Eliza away. She knows, at last, that this is the work God has  prepared for her. And she is ready, no matter what the cost.