Archive for March, 2009
BOOK REVIEW | Believing in Hope
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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 hope on the other side of every obstacle—if she holds on to her faith.
BOOK REVIEWS | Run, Jeremiah, Run
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Run, Jeremiah, Run
by Mabel Elizabeth Singletary
Reviewed by Linda Leigh Hargrove
Nine year old Jeremiah Jones is a born runner. He runs faster than most boys his age. Trouble is ever since his grandmother’s passing his running has been getting him in trouble. When he’s sad or stressed, he runs. His running helps him cope with the loss of Grandma Joanie and the prospect of never finding a ‘forever family.’ Running gets him thrown out of foster homes and expelled from school.
