You'll Get Through This

You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado

All of us go through struggles and have times in our lives when we question "why". Max Lucado follows the story of Joseph, from the Old Testament, when he was sold into slavery by his brothers and how God took this tragedy and made Joseph a better and stronger man. If we let Him, God can take our challenges and tragedies and helps us to overcome them and be better people because of them.

Rush Revere and the Brave PIlgrims

Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims by Rush Limbraugh

Written for the intermediate reader, this is a book that brings history alive. Rush Revere is a history teacher that has an incredible horse that allows him to travel back in time and experience events in history as they are taking place. He gets to meet great historical figures and ask them questions. Some of the students go back with him and see what it was really like to travel on the Mayflower and participate in the first Thanksgiving.

This was a fun read, definitely written for a younger audience, but full of information and experiences that will help young readers understand a little better some of the tragic events, tragedies and sacrifices that the pilgrams experienced as they left their home country to build a new country where they could have religious freedom.

Seven Wonders: The Colossus Rises

Jack is just your typical 13 year old boy who has a hard time getting out of bed for school, doesn't like to keep his room clean and puts off studying for his math test until the last minute, until that is, he collapses in the middle of the street and is wisked off to a strange hopital. This is not your normal hospital, there are armed guards at the door, no parents, and the only other patients are teenage kids that are just a little wierd. As Jack tries to figure out what is going on, he discovers he and the other teenagers at the hospital have a strange genetic trait that must be controled or it will destroy them. They must find the seven magic Loculi that were stolen from a long lost civilization in order to save themselves and the world.

This is the first book in the series, Seven Wonders, by Peter Lerangis. You will find this series in the intermediate section of our library. It was a fun book to read, but you definitely need to remember that it was written for a younger age group. I think it would be a good book to get your pre-teen or young teenager interested in reading.

My Story

My Story by Elizabeth Smart

As one tries to contemplate even a little bit of what her ordeal might've been like, reading each page of Elizabeth's story is a very emotional yet uplifting experience. Elizabeth does a fine job telling the sordid details of her 9 month-long kidnapping, but at the same time lets the reader feel of her strength. Throughout the book, as she takes the reader along on her terrible journey from Utah to California and back, Elizabeth explains how it was her faith and positive thinking, even when she experienced the most vile of evil influences, that helped her survive. My Story is quite the page turner.