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Review: Thomas Nelson’s Compact, Ultraslim Designer Bible
Holy Bible (Designer, compact ultraslim) Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Bible Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: October 2, 2012 This ultra-compact version of the Holy Bible is definitely something to behold. Covered in butter soft light purple leather, it’s held closed with a lavender satin ribbon that wraps around a button that looks like a peppermint. The verse from I Timothy 4:12 about not letting anyone despise you in your youth, it’s obvious that this Bible targets tweens and teens. Labeled as ultra-compact (so you know it’s slim and light) you would think that it would be bare bones scripture, but Thomas Nelson has packed an incredible amount of information into…
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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: 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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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…
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YA Review: Waves of Light by Naomi Kinsman
Waves of Light (Faithgirlz!) by Naomi Kinsman Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Zonderkidz Publication Date: April 23, 2013 Things are getting even more tense in Owl Creek, Michigan. Just when Sadie is finally feeling like this might be home, chaos erupts again and this time it threatens to destroy everything Sadie knows and loves. First, Frankie is moving to New York to live with her mom. That’s a big adjustment for Sadie since she and Frankie are now friends. She and Frankie have developed a love for art, drawing and for their art teacher, Vivian. Sadie has some fun ideas on how she and Frankie can still be art…
