Quarter2 Book Post1

The book that I am reading now is Stowaway by Karen Hesse. It is about a young 14-year old boy named Nicholas Young who leaves his father after refusing to learn his latin as is customary for boys his age growing up in 18th century England. After running away from his boarding school twice (and his teacher beats his own kids to assert his athority over the students), his father (he has no mother) sends him to work as a butcher's apprentice. The butcher is not a nice person either and beats Nicholas on more than one occasion. Nicholas eventually steals from the butcher and runs away from him as well. Since he has no home to go to, for his father would just ship him right back to the butcher who might very well kill him upon his return. Instead, he uses the money that he stole from the butcher to have three sailors hide him on board the ship HMS Endeavour. His life is very messed up and wishes he could just get away from his family and the butcher.