Blessed Child

“Whoever said that a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway?”

A young orphaned boy was abandoned in the midst of an invasion and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee those walls or die.
But the world beyond is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb.

When relief worker Jason Marker agrees to take Caleb from the monastery, he unwittingly opens humanity's doors to an incredible journey filled with political intrigue and peril. Jason and Leiah—the French-Canadian nurse who escapes the monastery with him—quickly realize Caleb's supernatural power to heal. But so do the boy's enemies, who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Jason and Leiah fight for Caleb’s survival while the world erupts in debate over the source of his power.

In the end nothing can prepare them for what they discover.

This book had a very suspenseful plot. I could see this turn into a movie someday, but the boy actor might be a little hard to find. This boy was very determined and naive to the world.

I really liked how the boy's innocence of the outside world showed through the book. Nowadays, younger children are being forced to grow up faster than their ancestors and made to present themselves in the adult world.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good thriller with a little kid as one of the main characters.