It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
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Today's Wild Card author is:
and the book:
Katy's Debate (Katy Lambright Series, The)
Zondervan (May 7, 2010)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Bestselling, award-winning author Kim Vogel Sawyer has many titles besides “writer.” As a wife, mother of three, grandmother of six, Sunday school teacher, and speaker, her life is full and happily busy. In her spare time she enjoys drama, quilting, and calligraphy. Kim and her husband make their home in Kansas, the setting for many of Kim’s novels.
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Product Details:
List Price: $9.99
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (May 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310719232
ISBN-13: 978-0310719236
My Thoughts:
In the second volume of the Katy Lambright series, Katy finds herself debating quite frequently. She has the competitive debate team occupying her time at school, but she has a far more serious debate going on within her heart and mind over the changes going on at home. Exposed to lifestyles far different from those in her Mennonite community, Katy decides to follow a friend's advice on a scheme to get her own way when things don't go as she wishes them to with her family. While Katy shows maturity as a student and is always a hard worker at any task she undertakes, her lack of wisdom and immaturity in handling relationships causes her trouble on many fronts. Katy has some hard and painful lessons to learn about honesty in her relationships, but will she learn them before her family has to pay the price?
Katy Lambright's experiences continue to show believable and important lessons that all teens must learn no matter their religious background. I enjoy Katie's stories, and I like the contrast between her viewpoint and those of her public shcool friends. She is learning a lot through her experiences, and I'm anxious to see what develops as Sawyer continues this series!
AND NOW...THE FIRST CHAPTER:
Definitely have to read some of Kim Vogel Sawyer's work. Love that this is a YA book. It's given me an idea -- creating a literature circle themed on religion for work. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteMy girl and I are enjoying this series!
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