Other editions of book Sam's secret journal

"A thing seems more important when it's written down," wrote Sam on New Year's day, as he began his journal" about things that happen inside me. The journal was, of course, secret; but it was no secret to Peter, whom the reader meets early in the story, and who is one bis reason the story is worth telling. Peter is twice as old as Sam and he is right there with some important answers. For one thing, when Sam talks to him, Peter listens. For another, Peter knows exactly how a boy feels, and why. He even understands Big Joe's contrary behavior quite a while before Sam does. It was no secret either to Mr. Watt whose sermon about "everybody's mission" had started the whole thing and helped Sam realize that what Jesus had taught, was just as much for him-Sam Sawyer-as for anyone else. All this involves Sam in what proves to be quite a year-from the Monkey Code, to the matter of Big Joe's hamster, to a battle over Susie's "watery, watery world." Sam's encounters with LIFE are, well-these are the secrets hidden in the pages of Sam's Secret Journal.