LATLL (Blog 2 Summary, Conflict, and Conclusions)

Leo and the Lesser Lion has to be one of the best books that I have ever read. It really had caught my attention and I could've read it for hours on end without getting bored. I usually enjoy reading books with several twists and turns in them, which this book hit the nail on the head with that. Leo and the Lesser Lion had many depressing notes, though it also had some kinder parts to it as well. My favorite part of the book would be where Leo died, not because it was happy but because it helped me to understand the book more than I had before. In the book it talks about the constellation Leo which was the name of one of the main characters. After he had died I had understood what the title had meant, Leo was the constellation while his little sister Bayliss had been the Lesser Lion. Though after Leo's death Bayliss felt lost, she didn't really know where she had belonged, or what her place in her family had been anymore.

This book had several conflicts right at the beginning but also throughout the whole book as a whole. In the beginning the book explains how the whole community is under a depression and everyone is poor. Bayliss' father is a doctor and people would trade him things such as potatoes for medical services. Then there had been the conflict of Leo dying. That had left their family, the Pettigrew's in mourning after the loss of their beloved son. The one person who had gotten hit the hardest had been Bayliss. The one thing that had kept her enjoying things and being happy was her brother. Leo and Bayliss would always go do pranks together and were partners in crime. This had cause another conflict of Bayliss losing sense of her purpose in her life. In the book after Leo's death there is another conflict which is these two "weary travelers" had been taken in by the Pettigrew's which had left Bayliss a little perturbed.  She had felt that way because they had been moved into Leo's room which she didn't feel was right.


Overall I had enjoyed this book and I hope to read many more books by the Author Sandra Forrester.