Mary Emma and Company

Written by Ralph Moody

Narrated by Cameron Beierle

Ralph “Little Britches” Moody at age thirteen moves with his mother, Mary Emma, and five siblings “back East” to begin a new life. They survive their first bleak winter in Massachusetts through the help of close relatives and caring friends. Money and prospects are few, but not faith and resourcefulness. Despite their efforts they face run-ins with local authorities, hardships including broken furnaces and plumbing, and difficulty keeping a small family business alive so they can have food to eat. Triumphing over the challenges the Moody home is filled with a warm family life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books in Motion
• Release date: Dec 15, 2001
• ISBN: 9781581162455

Reviews for Mary Emma and Company

[Michelle McDonald · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I'm so enjoying this series. The narrator is excellent too.

[Yvonne · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Well read. We enjoyed it immensely. The reader makes the story come alive.

[Natalee Colet · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Oh I absolutely love the Ralph moody books!!!! There full of adventure and suspense the best part is there true stories and that makes me think wow every last thing in this book actually happened!!!!!

[Mitch Sayler · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was such a wonderful account of this family's adventure in Boston! I marvel at the ingenuity of each person in the family and at how they cling to God through all things. Lots of detail, which I like!

[Anna Sanner · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book, following the Moody family as they move from Colorado. The reader has excellent voice inflections, I didn't want the book to end!

[Tim Arkinson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great story of God's care and narrator was very good

[satyridae · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The fifth book in Moody's autobiographical series is the lightest one yet. The family has moved back east, and needs to make a living- not unlike what they needed to do in Colorado. This time, though, it's a tad more uneventful- and the illustrative stories are just a bit weak. I found the parts about Ralph getting his name written down in the "bad boy book" by the police to be interesting, and I wonder how his memory colored that- was there, in fact, such a book, and if so, could it have been so unfair? There were warm and wonderful passages, of course- but this book could have been twice as long and I would have liked more analysis of their situation and less sledding. On its own, it would probably be a 4 star book, but as part of the series, I'm knocking it down one by comparison.