Category: Young Adult

BOOK REVIEW | Wildcats in the House »

WILDCATS IN THE HOUSE by Steve Russo and Gabi Russo High School Musical is a wildly popular movie among the tweener set, with it’s energetic dances and toe-tapping tunes. And most viewers had their favorite characters in the movie. However, Mr. Russo maintains that there is more than just dances and songs to learn from [...]

BOOK REVIEW | My Life Unscripted: Who’s Writing Your Life? »

My Life Unscripted: Who’s Writing Your Life? by Tricia Goyer What would your life look like as a play? Who would the main characters be? What parts of your life would you put into it? What parts would you leave out? The author has chosen a unique way to try to reach her readers. Her [...]

Real Girls of the Bible »

REAL GIRLS OF THE BIBLE by Mona Hodgson REAL GIRLS OF THE BIBLE takes real girls or women who lived in Bible times, tells us their story in a nut-shell, and then applies them to our lives today. This devotional includes the stories of thirty authentic girls (women) from the Bible. Each devotional includes the [...]

In Between »

IN BETWEENby Jenny B Jones Katie Parker doesn’t expect life to be fair. After all, her mom’s in jail, and her dad’s abandoned her years ago. But she’s adjusted to living in the orphanage, and will make it just fine—at least until she discovers she’s being sent to live with a foster family in In [...]

The Pocket Guide to Adulthood »

POCKET GUIDE TO ADULTHOOD: 29 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT 30 by Jason Boyett Maturity, wisdom, and credibility in only twenty-nine short chapters. In POCKET GUIDE TO ADULTHOOD, Mr. Boyett teaches you everything you need to know before you turn thirty (hopefully, you’ll know most of it before then!). In this handy pocket guide, [...]

Being a Girl Who Serves »

Being a Girl Who Serves by Shannon Kubiak Primicerio The author of this book is still in her twenties. I was surprised when I went to her site to find out that she’s already written 4 books with more on the way. She travels around speaking to teenage girls. This book is devoted to telling [...]

Connect: The Lowdown on Friendships and Relationships »

Author: Kendall Payne The author of the book is a singer, who has made two albums. She states early on in the first chapter that “Throughout the book you will read honest accounts of my dating and life experiences, and you may find that you disagree with my commentary or philosophy.” What the author is [...]

Perspectives: A Spiritual Life Guide for Twentysomethings »

Author: Colin Creel In the preface the author tells of responding to friends who wanted him to write a book with the thoughts “What do I have to say? I am not an expert on anything.” To me this sets the tone of the book. What is contained on the pages are simply the thoughts [...]

Sexy Girls, How Hot is Too Hot?” »

Author: Hayley DiMarco How do you deal with being a young woman in today’s world? You want to do what’s right, you want to look and dress the way the Lord would have you, but you go to the store and there’s nothing there. Is it worth it? How do you decide what image you [...]