We’ve started reading circles once again and I am reading the book “Journey Of 1000 Miles” by Ian Strachan.

I have decided to write my summaries every week so you can follow the story!

Lesson#1 Chapters 1-4

Summary

Lee was awoken in the dead of the night, as a start to a mysterious journey. His family, consisting of: Kim (his younger sister), his mother, his father, Tam (his older sister) and his grandparents.

As the Nguyen family trekked through the unknown wilderness, Lee figured out that they were escaping Saigon, his lifelong home in Vietnam. The family nearly got caught but luckily it seemed that the family’s journey wasn’t quite over yet.

Finally they arrived at the dock with a boat that would be their only escape from the country that was Lee’s childhood home. While journeying on the boat, the boat was nearly caught but the boat drifted on into the distance…

Here are some questions I wrote about the first few chapters:

  1. What would happen if one member of the family made noise and an officer found them?
  2. If you woke up in the middle of the night, would you have realised what was going on and why?
  3. How would you feel if the boat was leaving and you were still waste deep in water? Why?

Hope you like the book and stay tuned for the rest of the book!

Naomi