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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is about a young girl who lives in Liverpool, England during the 1800’s!. Her parents and younger brother and sister, who are twins, moved back to America where they once lived before her younger siblings were born, while thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle stays behind until her school year finishes!. She is faced with new challenges along the way, but finally she gets to see her family again—after she goes on a treacherous voyage!.

After the school year is done, she is to board a ship called The Seahawk with two families!. The families were to act as her chaperones, but at the last minute, Charlotte is told that they are not able to make it on the voyage!. They cannot attend because of circumstances such as illnesses and deaths!. Now Charlotte is harshly and quite frequently advised by the crewmembers not to board the ship!. But young, determined Charlotte discards these advisories and the people that told her to do so, and she went along with the voyage!. There were many questions in her mind at that time “Why won’t anyone go on the ship!?” “Why are they so afraid of Captain Jaggery!?” To me, he seems like a nice, sensible gentleman!.”

During her deceitful voyage, Charlotte faces many challenges along the way!. Some of those challenges mentioned include finding changes with her personality and her shipmates!. She learns how to deal with witnessing several deaths and murders of her shipmates, who are her newfound friends!. She was even locked in the ship’s jail cell in the fore hold (the bottom storage area of the ship) because of her being falsely accused of murder of the first-mate, then re-befriending her thought-dead newfound friend Zachariah while down there!. In the end, Charlotte, Zachariah and the remaining ship hands helped to make the Seahawk a dignified, self-ruled ship by overthrowing their deceitful, cruel captain!.

I thought this book gave good descriptions, and was very well written!. I really enjoyed the ending when Charlotte found her desire!. Many people can have the same types of emotions stated in this book because it can be metaphorically related to common day challenges such as: peer pressure, guilt, adventures, the yearning to find one’s true self, or even facing one’s fears!. No person could read this book without feeling envy, pride, and enthusiasm for young Charlotte!. Even after reading this book ten times, you still get an adrenaline rush when there is an exciting part of the story, so most readers feel those rushes extremely frequently!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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