Category: aTEENZFaith

BOOK REVIEW | Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door

Title: DON’T CHECK YOUR BRAINS AT THE DOOR Authors: Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler Publisher: Thomas Nelson August 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4003-1720-2 Genre: Inspiration/religion/general Do you know what you believe about your faith? Do you know why it’s true? DON’T CHECK YOUR BRAINS AT THE DOOR is a guidebook that has answers you’re looking for to [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Chic Shall Inherit the Earth

The Chic Shall Inherit the Earth is the fifth in the “All About Us” series of books by Shelley Adina. The series involved a group of teenagers who attend Spencer Academy, a private boarding school. Lissa Mansfield enters her senior year with her friendships intact but her future in flux. Lissa’s senior year is full [...]

MEET YA AUTHORS | Lydia and Heather Munn

Why do you write the kind of books you do? Heather: I wrote How Huge the Night for my Mom, at least at first. It did come to be very rewarding because I like to write about people who are up against more than they can handle & who have to let go of the [...]

BOOK REVIEW| How Huge the Night

Title: HOW HUGE THE NIGHT Authors: Heather Munn and Lydia Munn Publisher: Kregel Publications April 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8254-3310-8 Genre: Inspirational/young adult Julien Losier is fifteen years old. Hitler’s troops have just started their invasion, and his family feels they’ll be safer in the south of France than in Paris. But Julien doesn’t want to run. [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Always

ALWAYS: A Teen Devotional by Melody Carlson ALWAYS is a teen devotional designed especially for teens. Using a new modern translation of the Bible, the verses are easy to read and understand in today’s language. Ms. Carlson follows each verse up with a well thought out devotional with relates to both the verse and today’s [...]

BOOK REVIEW | So Over It

SO OVER IT by Stephanie Morrill Skylar Hoyt has finally graduated from high school and she is so ready to forget about her less than stellar school years and get a fresh start—preferably someplace where people don’t know about her, or her dysfunctional family. A place where she won’t run into her ex-boyfriend every time [...]

BOOK REVIEW | His Princess: Girl Talk With God

HIS PRINCESS GIRL TALK WITH GOD by Sheri Rose Shepherd You’re the daughter of the King! HIS PRINCESS GIRL TALK WITH GOD is a devotional specifically designed for teenage girls touching on all the issues that girls deal with today. Teen pregnancy, drugs, and eating disorders are just some of the issues Ms. Shepherd touches [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Devotions for the God Girl

DEVOTIONS FOR THE GOD GIRL by Hayley DiMarco DEVOTIONS FOR THE GOD GIRL is a really excellent devotional to help you become the woman God intended for you to be. There are 365 devotionals in this beautifully bound hardcover book, one for each day of the year. Each devotional begins with a verse, then the [...]

BOOK TRAILER | The Blue Umbrella by Mike Mason

The Blue Umbrella, by Mike Mason from David C. Cook on Vimeo. The Blue Umbrella In his first novel, best-selling author Mike Mason offers the Unfortunate Events crowd a beautiful literary fantasy with deep spiritual resonance

BOOK REVIEW | Believing in Hope

BELIEVING IN HOPE by Stephanie Perry Moore In this second book of the Yasmin Peace series family tensions and school unrest sore to a fever pitch. A school counselor starts a club for 8th grade girls: The LIGHT club, which deals with major issues: gangs, depression, teen suicide, self-esteem, etc. Yasmin discovers that there is [...]