LitPick Review
It’s the year 1861. Joe Wood is a fourteen-year-old in the village of Wiscasset, Maine. With his big dreams of becoming a newspaperman, he has started writing his own newspaper, the Wiscasset Herald, by borrowing sixty-five dollars from Mr. Shuttersworth. With the help of his assistant Owen, Joe tries to raise the sixty-dollars he owes him. But with the Revolutionary War just around the corner and Owen struggling with being made fun of for being black in a white community, he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to save his newspaper business. But when the strange young girl, Nell Gramercy, and her uncle and aunt come to town, everything changes.
Opinion:
Uncertain Glory is a great book because it shows what other people went through in the beginning of the Revolutionary War and how it affected them. I would recommend this book to someone who really likes historical fiction. This book was written in a perspective that fit what happened in the story. Uncertain Glory was a page turner because at the end of every chapter there was always something that would make you want to read on. I also really liked the book’s characters because Joe is the kind of character almost everyone would like. I also liked how Owen helps Joe and stands up for his father and against the other white boys, which makes him another likeable character. In conclusion, I think Uncertain Glory is a great book and I recommend it to others who also like historical fiction.
