| Sailing Through Life | | | | Throughout the book, we learn how to write out |
| | | | reasons for why we are working on something. |
| PES, Inc. (2005) | | | | By doing this, it gives us more incentive to push |
| Reviewed by Christina Smith for Reader Views (3 | | | | harder to obtain what we are working on. We |
| 06) | | | | also learn that we cannot just go into life not |
| This book was one of the best books that I have | | | | knowing anything. We must study and learn all we |
| read so far this year! The mix of story and | | | | can about the life that we want to lead. Paul was |
| teaching was great. In "Sailing Through Life," we | | | | taught how to do this by going to the library, |
| get to meet Paul, an eight year old who has dealt | | | | learning how to sail, learning how to run his |
| with nothing but abuse in his life and Captain | | | | newspaper business, studying harder for school, |
| Armbruster, a man who has lived his life for the | | | | learning who his real father was and finally |
| sea. Neither knew that a chance meeting would | | | | becoming a man. |
| end up changing both of their lives. We see how | | | | I would recommend this book to anybody who |
| Captain, as Paul calls him, shows Paul how to | | | | wants to learn how to figure out their life or to |
| become a responsible adult, despite what is going | | | | someone who just wants a great story to read. |
| on at home. He shows him what he needs to do | | | | Mr. Feld did a wonderful job writing this book. It |
| in order to not only keep his rowboat upright, but | | | | makes you learn without thinking that you were |
| also how to use these lessons in his everyday life. | | | | really learning, like some books do. |