Alone yet not Alone ~ Tracy Michele Leininger

Many of you may have heard of this uplifting, and harrowing true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger. If you have not, this book is a necessity for your family library!

During a beautiful Pennsylvania autumn day 1755, while twelve-year-old Barbara and nine-year-old Regina along with their two brothers and parents worked together in harvesting their bountiful crop, none anticipated the nearing danger that would befall them. Snatched from their family, their home, and everything familiar to them, Barbara and Regina were thrust into a culture foreign to their knowledge. Suddenly, both were separated from the only thing they had left to cling to for comfort--each other. Barbara painfully endures a life of solitude among the Allegheny, solely depending on God for daily strength.

Three years later Barbara and her fellow white captives in the Indian village, gather their strength, their meager provisions, and plot to escape from the world of savages.

"If one could not believe that there is a God, who helps and saves from death, one had better let running away alone...the extreme probability that the Indians would pursue and recapture us, was two to one compared with the dim hope that, perhaps, we would get through...even if we did escape the Indians, how would we ever succeed in passing through the wilderness, unacquainted with a single pather or trail...scarcely any food, the season wet and cold, and many rivers...to cross." Barbara Leininger

Alone yet not alone am I though in this solitude so drear

I feel my Savior always nigh;

he comes the wary hours to cheer

I am with Him and He with me

I therefore cannot lonely be.

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Indecency: None

Violence: Frequent talk and happenings of Indian raids, main characters threatened, a witness briefly recounting a person killed by fire ( non-graphic), a main character wounded. All of it was non graphic and nothing children couldn't handle.

Language: None

Age Interest: Family

My Rating: 5 out of 5