This story is about a young girl chosen by God, to protect France and its new, young king. She starts out as a farmer's daughter but one day in the summer, the girl, Joan, is talked to by voices from heaven and they say that the young king is in great danger and she has been chosen to protect him and France. Joan finds out that she can not go out and fight for France as a farmer's daughter, so she cuts her hair, and takes some of her father's clothes and goes to the city to fight for her rightful king. When she gets to Orleans the king disguises himself to look like one his lords to see if Joan really knows who the prince is. Joan knows who the prince is and she tells him that he is the only prince. Later she tells the young prince that she must free Orleans and takes him to Rheims to be crowned. The voices continue to talk to her and she goes to the bridge where the English and the French are going to fight. She looks at herself and at the English army and she knows that she had to raise an army for the French. The next time she goes to the bridge she has many French people on her side. The armies fight and the French win. Joan wants to go home, but the voices tell her not to because she will be taken prisoner. She is taken prisoner and won't eat or sleep for two days. She is put on trial and is sentenced to death. She is burned with a cross hidden in her clothes.

I really like this book because it is a true story about a girl. People say that girls can't do anything but  Joan proves that girls can accomplish a lot. The illustrations add a lot to the story. Read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!