Star of Light

Description:

**In a mountain village in Morocco, an Englishwoman transforms the lives of her visiting niece, a blind baby girl, and an eleven-year-old boy through her work as a missionary nurse. Hamid is worried that his blind sister Kinza is in danger from his stepfather.** **Goodreads Member (May 14, 2017) Lydia Strickler:** it was amazing **5 of 5 stars (review of another edition!)** Ok, I confess - my five star rating is for the original book published in 1953. **When I was ten years old, a missionary to Algeria gave me Star of Light.** It so captured my imagination that **I read it over and over and over**. I wanted my children and friends to read the book but wondered why it did not thrill them like it had me. **WELL, somebody decided that modern children could not understand a book published fifty years ago and Moody Press revised it** - took away much of the Moorish culture, the harshness, and the British langauge. I mean, what ten year old could understand that a "torch" is flashlight in the context in which it is used?? **Seriously, the original Star of Light expanded my horizons and my vocabulary as well as giving me a heart for missions.** Blah for this edition but if you can **find a rare, no longer published, original**, get it and love it.

subjects: Christianity,  Jesus,  Jesus Christ,  Christian,  Literature,  Historical,  Fiction,  Homeschooling,  Adult,  Young Adult,  Youth,  Children,  Brother,  Sister,  Baby,  Chapter books,  Blindness,  Honey for a Child's Heart,  Missionaries,  Missions,  England,  Mediterranean,  Atlantic,  Morocco,  Africa,  North Africa,  USA,  Children's fiction,  Picture books

People: Jesus,  Jesus Christ

Places: England,  Mediterranean,  Atlantic,  Morocco,  Africa,  North Africa,  USA

Times: Early 1950s