Star of Light (Patricia St John Series)

Star of Light is a story of a boy who needs to use the only thing he's got, courage.Hammid has a step father because his father and 3 siblings died, that's the way it is in Morocco.Hammid's little blind sister Kinza is also struggling. At 3 years old she is about to be sold to a beggar by her cruel step father. Will Hamid have enough courage to take his sister to safety? Or will his step father sell his little sister to the blind beggar? If Hammid is brave enough to take the journey it won't be easy for there is always something around the next corner.The plot wasn’t very predictable, I couldn’t know what was going to happen without reading it. The characters were believable. It takes place in Morocco, first in a village and later on in a city. I think the book has a theme about having a meaning for your life. I think it is a great book with a good moral and cliff hangers. I suggest that if you are reading this, you read Star of light.

This amazing book is about hard times, love, and coming to see God’s light. The charters are each very strong in their own way. It starts with a family, a mother and her three children married to an evil man. The mother hid one of her children named Kinza because she found out she was blind. Soon the rest of the family knew (step-father, step mother, and the children.) The step-father made her a beggar but realized he’d get more money if he sold her. Kinza's mother made a difficult plan for Hamid to take Kinza to a nurse. He did just that and he became friends with a group of homeless boys and Kina started to get strong with the nurse taking care of her (Aunt Rosemary). Rosemary’s family comes to visit from England. In the book her niece, Jenny, matures, especially when Kinza is taken and she has a lot of time to think. She soon sees she needs God’s love and becomes a Christian. Once Kinza is back from her step fathers’ plot to sell her, Rosemary decides it would be best if Kinza went to the blind school which Jenny’s father supports back in England. Rosemary will miss her but knows God will help her. This book is very meaningful. By reading it, you learn to be strong in situations that might not seem as scary as the events that happened in this book. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys adventure, danger, encouragement, and hope. Two thumbs up!

We love all of Patricia St. John’s books. This is our second favorite after Treasures of the Snow! A wonderful story with beautiful biblical application. All of kids love this story!

Star of light is about a boy named Hamid, and his sister, Kinza. They live with their stepfather and are treated harshly by Si Mohammed (the stepfather) and Fatima the elder wife. When Si Mohammed finds out Kinza is blind, he sends her to beg on the streets with an old beggar. The old beggar offers to buy Kinza, and Si Mohammed accepts. Hamid runs away with Kinza to give her a better life with the English Nurse, who takes her in, and teaches Hamid and her niece, Jenny about Jesus. It is a very good book to read, and I have read it numerous times.Star of Light by Patricia St. John was a very good book. I especially enjoyed reading it because of the characters. In some books, the characters seem unreal, which makes the book not as fun to read. In Star of Light, the three main characters: Hamid, Jenny, and Kinza felt very real to me. They weren't all good, and they weren't all bad. They each were different, and not perfect. You fell in love with their personalities, too. Kinza showed true trust that her brother, Hamid showed true love and faithfulness to his sister, even if it meant running away from home to give his sister a better life. Jenny showed her desire to bee good. She didn't always do the right thing, and she was selfish, but she really wanted to be good. There were still problems in their lives at the end, and you knew they would still have trials in life, but they were slowly growing to be more Christ-like. Patricia St. John knows how a kid thinks, feels, and acts, so you can really relate to the characters.---Cassie, age 12

Patricia St. John was an excellent writer of children's books. Her works are set in a variety of times and settings, include the classical world, contemporary (to her life-time) England, the Swiss Alps, to name a few. Whatever the setting, her stories always involve well-drawn characters dealing with realistic and personal conflicts. Their struggles teach them that in order to triumph over adversity, they usually must first deal with their own inner foes, such as pride, anger, selfishness, and bitterness. The difficulty, even hopelessness of life's inner and outer struggles, reveals the need for the magnificent and boundless resources of a loving God. Unlike many other writers of religious fiction, her characters have depth and personality and her plots are creative, rather than derivative and predictable.The Star of Light is set in an unnamed North African country, probably Morocco, in the 20th century. The story follows the efforts of Hamid, a boy from a poor rural family, to save his little blind sister Kinza from the selfish plans of their cruel stepfather. Hamid runs away with Kinza to bring her to a unusual missionary nurse that his mother had a special encounter with some years prior. The book relates how the lives of Hamid, Kinza, the English nurse Rosemary, and Rosemary's visiting relatives all intersect in a most dramatic and compelling fashion.St. John writes of this North African setting in a very knowledgeable and compassionate manner; clearly, she had firsthand knowledge of the culture. The character of the nurse Rosemary seems drawn from real life experience. This is a great book for adults and children to learn about North African culture and a unique version of the missionary calling. I highly recommend it.I have questions for anyone more familiar with Patricia St. John. This edition and others we have bought have been revised. Does anyone know whether one can find the original versions of her writings and whether these modern revisions have been extensive?

This book was the first one I read, written by Patricia St.John and I was absolutely spell-bound by it. Later I used it with children of 2-14 years old, one chapter a week and the tension to learn how it continued was sometimes so great, that they wanted me to carry on to the next chapter. They listened in dead-silence. Patricia became later my personal friend and colleague right until she died. I once asked her, if this and other stories from her books were real stories or just invented ones. She reassured me that all the books she has written were inspired and based on real events. I believed her and her books became even more precious to me and to my children, grand-children and friends old and young alike. Age-range from 2-99 years old.

One of the best children's story ever written. Amazing characters with emotions children will identify with. She understands children so well and makes biblical truths so simple even an adult can understand.

It is a simple but clear explanation of how and why Jesus came to save sinners. Even a child can understand if he asks God show him.

Good book, and arrived on time.

This is a wonderful story that you will love. I read it to my kids and they loved it too.