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Review: Right Where I Belong by Krista McGee
Right Where I Belong by Krista McGee Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: YA Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: December 11, 2012 Natalia has watched her father bounce from marriage to marriage during the course of her lifetime. It’s gotten so bad that she’s completely written off love herself. But when he announces that he’s divorcing his third wife, the only woman who has ever been even close to a real mother for her, Natalia is completely ready to give up on everything. Instead of staying with her father in Spain, where she’s grown up, Natalia decides that she’d like to go and live in the United States with her soon to be…
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Review: A Cast of Stones by Patrick Carr
Cast of Stones by Patrick W. Carr Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Publication Date: February 1, 2013 Errol Stone doesn’t really have an ideal life. In the small village of Callowford, he’s known as the town drunk. He gets kicked out of the local tavern on a regular basis and everyone in the village knows that if he gets any money, he’ll spend it on ale. So when an urgent message arrives for a hermit priest who lives in the hills, Errol isn’t exactly at the top of the list to deliver it. However, the church’s messenger needs it delivered quickly and Errol is the only one…
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Review: If We Survive by Andrew Klavan
If We Survive by Andrew Klavan Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: YA, Adventure Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: November 6, 2012 Will Peterson is just a normal teenage guy. He’s got his issues with girls and friends and schoolwork. He deals with all the regular stuff you’d imagine that a teenager deals with on a daily basis. When the chance came for him to join a mission trip to Central America, he figured why not? So Will went to a foreign country with a few other friends from school and their youth pastor to help build a wall. What he never expected was to get caught up in a violent uprising and…
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Review: Revolve Devotional Bible
Revolve Devotional Bible Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Bible Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: July 20, 2010 When I first started looking into reviewing Bibles, the Revolve Devotional Bible for teen girls jumped out at me. The cover is highly recognizable and utterly gorgeous. In chocolate brown tooled leather with a pink leather band around the center, this is a Bible that will stand up and make people take notice. Obviously I needed to know more about what else it contained and why it was so perfectly geared for teen girls. (This is what it said on the box, by the way.) I opened the Bible and saw that the pages,…
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Review: Iscariot by Tosca Lee
Iscariot by Tosca Lee Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Historical, religious Publisher: Howard Books Publication Date: February 5, 2013 Judas Iscariot. It’s a name irrevocably intertwined with the death of the most famous man in history, Jesus Christ. Anyone who has studied the scriptures knows that Judas betrayed the Messiah with a kiss of friendship. But if the sum total of your knowledge of Judas comes from those few verses, then you don’t know his whole story. Iscariot by Tosca Lee opens with the final moments of Judas Iscariot. We follow his pondering and memories as he explains what led him to this climactic ending. It’s the part of his tale that we…
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YA Review: Brilliant Hues by Naomi Kinsman
Brilliant Hues (Faithgirlz!) by Naomi Kinsman Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Zonderkidz Publication Date: September 4, 2012 It’s time to go. Sadie Douglas and her father have changed the way people look at bears and hunting in Owl Creek, Michigan. Now it’s time for them to return to California. Another set of goodbyes? It seems like too much for a young teenager to bear. When she gets back to California, she realizes that life did not just sit around and wait for her. Friends that she left behind when she went to Michigan are completely different people now. An interest in boys has changed some of the dynamics…
