The Young Warriors by Victor Stafford Reid

The Young Warriors by Victor Stafford Reid

In 1735, five Maroon boys are ready to be initiated as warriors. They have prepared long and hard for this day, and must now pass a sequence of tests. How the boys approach this, the most important day of their lives, says much about how they will respond to the challenges ahead. When they encounter a Redcoat troop in the forest near their village, the defence of the village and surrounding Maroon communities will depend on these boys, their training, courage, and intelligence. On this occasion, their community depends on them for its survival, but their initiation as warriors also teaches them lifelong lessons about loyalty, responsibility, trustworthiness and friendship.

V. S. Reid was a journalist, a newspaper editor, and a politician. He is the author of The Jamaicans and The Leopard as well as four novels for children, Nanny-Town, Peter of Mount Ephraim, Sixty-Five, and The Young Warriors.