This engaging story follows Pompey Briggs, an eighth-grade student at Holy Cross School who decides to keep a diary in hopes that it might help him become a great man someday. Through Pompey's humorous adventures, mistakes, and everyday experiences, young readers discover valuable lessons about honesty, responsibility, confession, and growing in virtue.
Especially appealing to young men, this wholesome Catholic story shows that when Pompey makes a mistake, he learns to take responsibility, admit when he is wrong, and make things right.
Details:
- Entertaining story told through a young boy's diary
- Filled with wholesome Catholic moral lessons
- Especially recommended for young men
- Imprimatur: 1941
- Page Count: 128