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As a homeschooling veteran, I review middle-grade stories to help parents, librarians, and teachers choose good books.
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Is Katniss a hero?
One writer, N.D. Wilson, doesn’t think much of what Katniss does. She’s no hero, he says, except at the beginning where she takes her sister’s place.
From black to green thumb
This year a friend who is also very good with plants gave me about eight new plants, some flowers some vegetables. I was so sure that they would be dead within weeks. But for the first time in my life my pots are green and fruitful.
Free featured ebook: The Hope of Shridula
Today I’m featuring The Hope of Shridula by Kay Marshall Strom, a story of revolutionary India published March 1 by Abingdon, a major Christian press, and favored with 4.25 out of 5 stars by the eight people who have reviewed it so far on Goodreads.
The Masterpiece, a devotional story
Today we have a guest post, a devotional story from author Linda Rondeau.
I was created for a noble cause. I believed this from the beginning. With loving patience, Giovani transformed me from imperfect, undefined clay into the finest porcelain urn in all of Italy.
Daughter of Light by Morgan L. Busse, a review
Rowen Mar discovers a strange white mark on her hand and loses her soldier father on the same day. Her father was her only friend and protector in her village of suspicious folk, who can’t forget that Rowen is adopted.
Free ebook for today: Biblical fiction
Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin is the free ebook I am featuring today. It’s the first in the Chronicles of the Kings series. Readers really like it; it received 4.7 out of 5 stars on 80 customer reviews at Amazon. You can download it and read it on your computer if you don’t have an e-reader. Remember to do it soon; the special deal may end shortly.
Angel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore, a review
Brielle is crippled by her despair as she blames herself for her best friend’s death. To learn to cope, she returns to the small town she calls home from the big city where she had attended a performing arts high school. Old friends reach out to her, but she rebuffs them. Then an amazing boy shows up and shakes her from her lethargy.
Featured free ebook: a prairie romance
Our featured free ebook for today is Paper Roses (Texas Dreams trilogy, Book 1) by Amanda Cabot, published in 2009 by major Christian fiction publisher Revell. It received four out of five stars on 75 reader reviews at Amazon. Be sure to get it soon; it may not be free much longer!
An email from God
An e-mail from God showed up in my in-box last November, during a year I strained to wring out the deeper novel my literary agent was convinced I had in me. I needed to scrape out my emotions and smear them on the page. But I only knew how to shove them inside.
Joanie Hileman’s 32 Miracle Stories
Joanie Hileman was not a writer, but the Lord kept bugging her to write this book. Finally she did it. She gathered testimonies of God’s faithfulness in miracles and in loss from all over the state of Maine, it seems.
Free Ebook: Legacy Lane
Our featured free e-book for today is Legacy Lane by Robin Lee Hatcher (Book One in the Hart’s Crossing series), a mother-daughter tale. It earned 4 out of 5 stars at Amazon on reviews by 18 readers. It was published by Stonehouse in 2010. At 160 pages it’s a short novel, or novella.
More than religion
Writer Jennifer Slattery: When my daughter was young, I spent a great deal of time shining up the inside and outside of our house. I wrapped so much of who I was in what others could see. Pretty ugly, huh? God thoughts so, and as I grew closer to Him, He redirect my heart to things of greater value—eternal value.