For those just joining us: I'll be seeing/meeting the very talented author, Beverly Lewis, on April 7th for her book tour...so every Monday & Friday we'll post a review of one of her books! Starting the 10th of March and ending the 7th of April. So, more reviews of awesome books!}
We are on day 1 of the countdown!
Book 1 is:
About this book:
“Holly Meredith is turning thirteen on
Valentine's Day, and she can't wait! Maybe this will be the year to visit her
dad in California, where he moved when her parents divorced several years ago.
Since then, Holly has grown very close to her mom and little sister, and she
has a best friend she can share everything with and tell everything to...well,
almost everything. Holly and her best friend, Andie, were having a great
seventh-grade year. But now a new boy in their class has them fighting over
him--and this is one thing the girls can't share! According to the Loyalty
Papers they created a few years ago, one of the girls has to back off. Should
Holly forget about Jared to save her friendship with Andie? Or should she force
Andie to stay away? When Holly's secret plan backfires, she discovers the true
meaning of friendship--and learns the miracle of forgiveness.”
Series: Book #1 in the “Holly’s Heart” series.
Spiritual Content- A few Scriptures are read & quoted; Talks
about God & forgiveness; ‘H’s are capitalized when referring to God; Church
going & going to youth group; Holly goes to church and the Pastor talks
about forgiveness which she doesn’t want to hear, so she tunes him out and
another time doesn’t listen because she’s thinking about something else; Mentions
of God & Jesus; Mentions of Bibles, Bible reading, & devotionals; Mentions
of prayers, praying, & blessings over food; Mentions
of churches, church going, Sunday school, youth group, a church choir, hymns, services,
pastors, & sermons; Mentions of a missionary & faiths; Mentions of Christians
& becoming a Christian; A couple mentions of those & events in the
Bible; A couple mentions of being concerned about someone’s salvation; A mention
of Holly struggling to remember to read her devotion every day.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘rats’,
a ‘stupid’, and three ‘dumb’s; Eye rolling, Sarcasm, & Sass; A boy asks another
boy if he would call a teacher “the B word” (which the another boys says
“do you mean…blob?”, they both get in trouble); Holly talks back to her
mother with an attitude (she apologizes once because she knows she’s in
trouble); When she’s mad at her mom, Holly keeps a secret and thinks that she
doesn’t need to know about it; Holly sneaks out to an event that her mom said
she can’t go to (& while she gets grounded for doing that, she still thinks
that is was worth it but by the end realizes that it wasn’t); Holly’s best
friend offers her $20 to do a writing assignment for her (but Holly refuses as
that’s being dishonest); Holly & her best friend don’t talk to each another
for the first part of the book (because she won’t tell her something that
happened, so Holly won’t talk to her) and they argue and are mean to each other
for the majority of the book; Mentions of a family member dying from cancer; Mentions
of injuries & pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of Holly’s
classmates being caught smoking; Mentions of Holly’s parents’ divorce & how
that they haven’t seen her father since (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions
of jealousy; Mentions of lies, lying, & deceit;
*Note: Going
to Disneyland & mentions of the characters and places there; A mention of Dairy
Queen; A mention of the movie Ever After.
Sexual Content- Blushes; Holly can come across as boy crazy
and has a crush on at the new boy at school; Holly and her best friend like the
same boy which causes troubles in their friendship & Holly not wanting to
be her friend anymore; Holly isn’t allowed to date *Spoiler* but says yes
anyway when Jared asks if she’ll be his girlfriend *End of Spoiler*; Mentions
of Holly receiving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation & her friend saying the boy
was jumping at the chance to get near her lips (which Holly is concerned that
it was kind of her first kiss, the boy later says that her lips were soft and
they could try it again, barely-above-not-detailed); All about many mentions of
boys, cute boys, & crushes; Mentions of a two-timing boy that makes many
girls believe they’re an item (he says that the Bible says we should love everyone,
so he’s doing the best he can to be a loving Christian, Holly tells him that he’s
leading girls on); Mentions of dates, dating (which Holly isn’t allowed to do yet),
& girlfriends/boyfriends; Mentions of flirting; Mentions of blushes &
winks; Mentions of jealousy; A few mentions of a little sister teasing her
older sister about a boy; A couple mentions of seeing two young teens playing
footsie; A couple mentions of hands touching;
*Note: Holly is self-conscious about being thin, but when a boy
tells her she’s perfect and that he likes tall, thin girls, Holly is happy to
hear that because her best friend is short and a little chunky; Holly is hoping
her figure will develop by her thirteenth birthday (this brings mentions of
skinny girls/women, other girls Holly’s age changing and developing); A few
mentions of Holly noticing her classmates’ figures (including Holly seeing a
curvaceous classmate and thinking that someday she’ll look like that; A mention
of Holly and her mom having their first talk about womanly things.
-Holly Meredith, age 12-13
1st person P.O.V. of Holly
150 pages
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Pre Teens- 
New Teens- 
Early High School Teens- 
Older High School Teens- 
My personal Rating- 
{Add a full star for girls in Public
or Private school.}
Okay, so I’m not the target age for this series. Which is
normally fine, but Holly frustrated me a lot through out this small book. She
is in public school so Homeschoolers probably won’t be interested in this book,
just because Holly’s life is centered around school and boys in this book.
Public school girls around the Pre Teen and New Teens may like this book
because it focuses on boy drama and friendship drama, especially if they’re
going through one of those situations.
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this
author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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