Search for the Hidden Garden: A Discovery with Saint Therese - Softcover

Weaver Smith, Sherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819890502 ISBN 13: 9780819890504

Publisher: Pauline Books & Media, 2016

Synopsis

In Search for the Hidden Garden, readers will meet Saint Therese as a fifteen year old living in Lisieux in the months before entering her Carmelite convent. An imaginative historical novel, the story focuses less on Therese herself and more on the ways she helps the heroine, Charlotte Delacroix, grow in her love for Jesus.

This welcome addition to Pauline Kids Friends with the Saints series takes readers into the heart and mind of a young girl coming to grips with life and unraveling a mystery, but is the mystery the location of a hidden garden for children, or is it the mystery of how to create a life by doing small, good things for others and thereby for God.

Sherry Weaver Smith follows up her acclaimed novel The Wolf and the Shield with the story of a friendship that transcends social class, lifes challenges, and even death itself.

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Review:

"Search for the Hidden Garden: A Discovery with Saint Therese" is author Sherry Weaver Smith's second book in the Pauline Kids' "Friends with the Saints" series. Like her first book, "The Wolf and the Shield: An Adventure with Saint Patrick" the work was a joy to read. As a classroom teacher, I look forward to introducing my fourth graders to this book, which is set in a hidden garden and pulls readers in with the excitement of a treasure hunt. These elements combined enable children to become absorbed in, and mesmerized by, this wonderful historical fiction mystery. However, there are also important life lessons along the way. As the main character, Charlotte, and her friends follow the path of the treasure map, their evolving friendship with Therese takes on a journey of its own. This parallel adventure allows them to learn the importance of true friendship, faith, and the joy of doing for others. Sherry Weaver Smith is not only able to perfectly capture a great story line for children, but also interweaves a significant moral about [the Holy Spirit]. This book is well-written, interesting, and will be enjoyed byreaders of any age. I am eager to share this book, and its lessons, with my students.

-Sylvia Buller, Fourth-grade Teacher, Resurrection Catholic School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

"Search for the Hidden Garden is a delightful analogy or parable for the spirituality of St. Therese. Amid the complications of human relationships, childlike determination continues to search for the innocence we are all born with, which embraces all people. While young Therese is a minor character in the story, she is a major influence on their search and ours. Adults and children will enjoy this search, through gentleness, patience, love and joy." -Father Robert Colaresi, Director, Society of the Little Flower, and Director, Carmelite Spiritual Center

About this edition

• Publisher: Pauline Books & Media
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0819890502
• ISBN 13: 9780819890504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128