James A. MacKay (1936–2007)

The overall message of this story is to always do the right thing even when it may be difficult.
This book was a very interesting read. I enjoyed how this book wasn’t too descriptive but gave just enough information for the reader to completely understand what was happening. I also enjoyed the word choices of this book because it painted a certain heroic picture for the reader. It’s hard to understand the difficulties of an individual from a different time period but the author did an excellent job painting Allan Pinkerton and all the hard choices he had to make.
I also enjoyed that the author decided that there should be minimum amount of pictures. It added to the maturity and authenticity of this book. It is obvious that this book is meant for older students and the appearance of this book only adds to it. There’s a picture once every several pages and they are in black and white, adding touches of the time period to the book. I believe it made this book more appealing to older children.… (more)