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Walk: Jamie Bacon's Secret Mission on the Camino de Santiago (Homeschool Edition)
The capacity to teach historically accurate information in the form of narrative story is my favorite style of writing. Great for independent readers and family read-aloud time, the escapades of Jamie Bacon on his pilgrimage walk will speak to any age adventurer. Included throughout the narrative are actual black-and-white photographs from the Camino de Santiago. This edition also includes a map to track Jamie’s walk across Spain, a Spanish glossary, and architecture glossary, and the encouragement to build your own timeline to follow along. This would be a wonderful book to add to a geography study of Europe and may prompt further interest-led studies. 337 pgs, pb. ~Rebecca
Jamie Bacon is angry that his parents are making him walk 500 miles in Spain as part of their home-schooling plan. He’s especially disappointed that, unexpectedly, Dad can’t come along on the trip, so he’ll be with just Mom and his sister Lily.
But when Jamie meets a priest, Father Diego, on the plane and hears the backstory of the Camino de Santiago, he’s intrigued. And when he naively agrees to the request by two pilgrims to secretly carry a heavily taped envelope, unopened, all the way to Santiago de Compostela, Jamie is stuck with keeping his word. Multiple missteps plague Jamie on the Way of St. James (the English name for the pilgrimage). He injures Lily, causes a car accident, loses the envelope twice, and gets the family lost. Like most Camino pilgrims, Jamie discovers every day on the route holds adventure, revelation, elation, and exhaustion. He meets quirky and kind and scholarly pilgrims; he learns legends and history. He sees marvels of architecture and explores castles, churches, and a cave. And he’s heroic, too, when he rescues a child from a charging bull, saves a puppy, prevents vandalism, talks his mother out of a panic attack, and more.
There are surprises in WALK. I don’t want to spoil a reader’s enjoyment, so I won’t disclose much more here. But when Jamie is finally in the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, after the family performs traditional pilgrim rituals in the world-class cathedral, it’s time for him to deliver that troublesome envelope. Finding out what he’s inadvertently carried the whole way produces Jamie’s biggest surprise.
Product Format: | Paperback |
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Brand: | Beautiful Feet Books |
Grades: | 4-7 |
ISBN: | 9781958955086 |
Length in Inches: | 8 |
Width in Inches: | 5 |
Height in Inches: | 0.75 |
Weight in Pounds: | 0.8 |