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Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Ever want to get romance, passion, and suspense wrapped into one? Redeeming Love delivers and with so much more!
Michael Hosea is a farmer in the California valley in the time of the gold rush. He's wanting a wife, but who knew finding one could be this simple? Look up and she walks right past you! Through the book, trials and the past must be revealed, understood, and forgiven as Michael fights to win Angel, the girl with what seems to everything but nothing but must lose it all for the sake of finding love.
An award-winning Christian romance, Mrs. Rivers had given you a fictional perspective of the life of two people from the Bible, but writes it to where anyone can find hope and redemption, too.
Rating: 5
Reviewed by: Leah
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Annie's Baby by Beatrice Sparks, Ph.D.
Annie's Baby is about a girl who got pregnant by her boyfriend. This book is her diary of when she met her boyfriend. It also goes through when she gets pregnant and after.
Rating: 3
Reviewed by: Rachel
Left Behind Volume One by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
This book is great; it is religious but not only about religion. It is really about real life teens and some of the experiences that they go thru, also it keeps you wondering what will happen next. It is a teaching of what may happen when the world comes to an end, who and what will be here, and what it will be like.
Rating: 4
Reviewed by: Misty
Haunted Water by Jerry Jenkins
This is a great on the edge thriller; it gets a very high rating in my book, with simple to read yet even thrilling enough for adults. You will be so into the book, you will not be able to put it sown. The book is about 3 kids who lost their dad in a plane crash, their mom married again and they moved to Colorado. They took a trip to the mountains where some mysterious things were going on and they were right in the middle of it and didn't even know it. It has a very heroic ending as well as spiritual and right at the very end it leaves you hanging ready for the next volume.
Rating: 5
Reviewed by: Misty
Mourning Song by Lurlene McDaniel
This book follows sisters Dani and Cassie as Cassie battles a fatal brain tumor. When Cassie receives a letter and check from Last Wish Foundation, Dani comes up with a plan. With the help of her friend Austin, they steal Cassie away from the hospital so she can take her last vacation.
This story is so heart wrenching, and yet it is also enlightening at the same time. I recommend this book to young adults because everyone has to deal with death and maybe this story will help someone.
Rating: 4
Reviewed by: April
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
This is book #2 in a series of 7 books called the Cronicles of Narnia. This one is about four children sent away from home because of the war. At their new home there is a magical wardrobe that they stumble into and before them opens a new and magical world ruled by an evil queen which they help to take off the throne.
I believe that this book was great. It is not hard to read or understand and it has excitement in every page. If you saw the movie it was okay, the book is way better than the movie. The first time I read it I was glued to it. I ended up reading it three times after that.so if you want an adventurous and exciting book, you can pick it up here at the Calhoun Library.
Rating :5
Reviewed by: Alex
The Girl Death Left Behind by Lurlene McDaniel
Lurlene McDaniel has made a successful career out of writing stories about how death and suffering affects her characters. In this story, fourteen year old Beth is always complaining about her family and how they get on her nerves. During one afternoon her whole world is turned upside down. A car accident claims the life of every other member of her family. Beth's only living relatives are her mother's sister, Camille, Camille's husband, and their daughter, Beth's cousin, Terri. Beth and her cousin have never gotten along, and now Beth has to leave her home and her friends behind to live with her cousin in a new town with a new school.
This book tells of Beth's struggles to get on with her life. It also shows us how fragile life is, and how important it is to let the people you love know it.
Rating: 4
Reviewed by: Nyala
