Yesterday I read one of my three school novels for this year, called ‘The Simple Gift.’
It’s about this boy called Billy who moves away from his home, because he’s had enough of his father and he wants to start a new life on his own.
He leaves taking very few belongings with him, and not a great deal of money.

After he spends sometime on the Highway, trying to catch a lift, but becomes unsuccessful, he notices a train with a boat on top of it, and he climbs onto the top of the train, and sits in the boat.
The bus driver sees him, and instead of yelling and doing something about it, he says to the boy that he can come and use one of the cabins for free!!!

The train’s whistle blew three times to indicate to Billy that he was to get off at a town called, ‘Bendarat.’

There Billy finds some empty carriages at a train station, that are going to be worked on for one use or another.
He makes one of these cariages his home.

One day he buys a single lemonade from McDonald’s and then waits until customers have finished their food, so he can race over to eat the leftovers. Ewwwww I know!!!
There he meets a girl called Caitlin, who mops the floor there as a job.
Not only does Billy meet Caitlin and they become friends, possibly even more in this story, (you can’t be too sure on that!) but he meets another hobbo, like himself in a carriage next to himself.
His name is also Billy, but they call him Old Bill, to avoid confusion.

I won’t tell you much more because I want you to read the book and find out for yourself, but I will tell you this.

The Police get onto Billy and ask him a series of questions about living in the town.

All this could send Billy back on a train back home, unless someone saves him!
Will he be saved? Even save himself? Or will he have to return back to where he started from……?
READ THIS BOOK AND YOU’LL FIND OUT!

I give this book five stars because I loved the story line, the characters seemed like real people you see these days, and I read it in a day because it was so interesting!
GOOD ON YA STEVEN HERRICK!!!