Raiders From The Sea Summary

Raiders from the sea is the first book of a series. The book is about thirteen year old Bree and her brother Devin. The story is set around the late 900s and based in Ireland.

The story starts out with Bree exploring one day, when she sees a boy near the slippery rocks she becomes worried and calls out to warn him. When he sees that someone else is around he starts to panic and slips. When he slips he hits his head on a rock and becomes unconscious. Bree quickly hurried over to the boy and carried him out of the water before he drown. Once the boy regained his bearings he introduce himself as Michael and asked if Bree could go and fetch him something to warm himself. Bree agreed and left. Now Bree had an uneasy feeling about this boy and
Not soon after that they heard the bell and everyone hurried to their hiding places. Bree and her brother Devin were in charge of hiding themselves and their three younger siblings and they already had a good hiding spot in the woods, near a river.
When they got near the hiding spot Bree went to tie up the tree and Devin took the younger kids to the concealed location. When Bree hid the boat she did not tie the rope tight enough so when the Vikings wandered by they knew someone was near. They spotted Bree and started chasing her. She ran as far as she could, but the two Vikings caught up to her and took her as a slave.

Bree and the two Vikings walked downstream for a really long time then finally met up with the Viking ship. Bree could see many more local Irishmen tied up the same way she was and sitting on the boat. Then, when all of the Vikings were on board, the ship took off and started to sail, very quickly, away from Ireland. Bree looked and looked, but did not see anyone she knew, until she heard a voice that sounded familiar she looked around and saw Michael, giving orders to some of the men on the ship. When he turned around and saw her, he immediately walked over and started talking to her. While they talked Bree tried to not sound scared [even though she was terrified]. She learned that Michael
The boat sailed for many days. Then one night a storm started to rage and everyone on the ship was terrified. The Vikings wailed out to Thor their god of lightening, but Bree encouraged all of the Irish people to pray to the one true God to save them from the storm. The storm got so bad that the Viking sailors were talking about throwing the prisoners overboard to please their god. Bree was very frightened, she mustered up all the courage that she had and stood up and started praying as loud as she could to the Lord. The prisoners repeated the words she said and suddenly the storm stopped. “It’s a miracle!” the Vikings said, dumbfounded, but Bree and the other Prisoners knew exactly what really happened and praised the Lord for saving their lives. The next day they reached Norway and Bree made a plan of escape, but while she was running she heard the sound of a dog chasing her. That is where the book ends and leads on to the next book of the