Moonlight School

Inspirational in The All Mighty’s wisdom. Stirred parts me that needed stirring since we are facing a health crisis. Returned my faith. Exceptional writing, detail, characters interwoven with a true Living Legend. Outstanding!

Think for a moment how difficult your life would be if you could not read or write. I suppose for most of us, the closet thing we can equate this to would be attempting to read something in a foreign language. Yet, I believe many of us could still deduct at least a few words out of a sentence or two because of some similarities we remember from some Spanish, French or Latin Class way back in our Youth! What if you were an adult 30, 40, or 50 years old and never, ever even learned the alphabet? When you conducted any type of legal business, you signed your name with an “X” because you had no idea how to write your name? You had to depend on what someone TOLD you were in the Legal Documents you signed but you had no way to know if what they said was the TRUTH! How could you ever hope to escape the poverty you were born in? What if you were fortunate enough to go to school and your teacher had only had to pass Grade 8 Exams to qualify to teach? This is the reality of Rowan County, Kentucky, in the Spring of 1911. Intellectual illiteracy and the challenge of what to do about it.

Bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher has written a soul-stirring story for the ages! Inspired by the true events of the Moonlight Schools, Fisher brings this story to life by making the characters come alive and tell the story (their story) that shocked the nation into taking adult literacy seriously. These people and their story will completely capture your heart! Upon completion of reading this book, the reader will be thankful for many things; the two main ones being that they took time to read this book and heartfelt gratitude for the gift of reading.

I was provided a complimentary copy of this novel by Revell and NetGalley. The opinions expressed here are completely my own and without influence.

THE MOONLIGHT SCHOOL
..Suzanne Woods Fisher
Lucy with orders from her father to watch Charlotte, at 2 1/2 a curious child. Absorbed in the story of Beth in Little Women, she was distracted, and now a sister missing. Life changes when her father remarried and not much older than Lucy. Then saying a cousin Cora needed a stenographer for six months. Thinking it would be a lot of making tea which she had learned well to do. To her surprise it was visiting these people as they dictated a letter to her. Of which riding horseback to their homes, she had never been on a horse father saying it was un lady like. Days when he lived here and knew Cora her father had ridden a horse, Now a mention of snakes and learning to interpret the language of the mountain people, what had she gotten into. Cora wanted to see a brave courages Lucy once again, not bogged down from the guilt of losing Charlotte, and think for herself.
Life changes with a campaign for the Moonlight school for the mountain people to be educated. Needing volunteers to visit each home and tell them. A beautiful story of how a simple word to God, was prayer that easy to do, and getting the idea of how this campaign would succeed, Cora now had an answer and a purpose. Given ARC for my voluntary review and my honest opinion for Net Galley and Revell.