Book That Month (5)

Title: Badge of Honor (Goldtown Adventure #1) by Susan K. Marlow. 

Genre: Historical fiction/ middle grade/adventure/ Christian themes.

Reading level: Easy/Medium. 

Content warning (a warning of things that readers may not want to engage with): A gang of thieves and a class bully are present. 

Content label (a label of what can be expected in this book, so that readers can avoid this book if they want to): Action scenes. Mild injuries. 

Page count: 140

You should read this if… You love a faith filled book! If action in the old west has always tugged at your heart. You wonder what it would be like to live in a goldtown. If you love adventures that seem real and wonder what it’s like to pan for gold.

Description: Taken from the back of Badge of Honor by Susan K. Marlow.

It’s 1864 and Goldtown, California, has seen the last of its Gold Rush days. BUt the flecks of gold twelve-year-old Jeremiah “Jem” Coulter and an old prospector, “Strike,” find in their played-out claim on Cripple Creek keep Jem’s hope of striking it rich alive. In the meantime, selling frog legs and firewood with his sister, Ellie, will have to do. After all, Pa can’t seem to make ends meet on their broken-down ranch.

When his father accepts a job as sheriff of the lawless Goldtown, Jem’s life turns upside down. He doesn’t want to be a sheriff’s kid. Worse . . . how many outlaws will use Pa’s badge for target practice? Then Cripple Creek mysteriously dries up, and Jem’s hope of panning more gold dribbles away. HIs prospector friend has also disappeared. Jew is determined to find some answers.

What Jem discovers plunges him head-on into danger, not only for himself but also for Strike and Ellie. Will it prove that the start on Pa’s chest is just a target? Or convince Jew it is truly a badge of honor?

This book is full of adventure and the faith in its roots is always something Susan K. Marlow conveys so beautifully! If you’re looking for a new favorite adventure story then this is the perfect start!

With Faith, Hope, Love, and Feathers,

Inertia.