Time Will Tell (The Sierra Jensen Series #8) - Softcover

Gunn, Robin Jones

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9781561795680: Time Will Tell (The Sierra Jensen Series #8)

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ISBN 10: 1561795682 ISBN 13: 9781561795680

Publisher: Focus on the Family, 1998

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Faced with a serious lack of communication with her sister Tawni and her friend Amy, Sierra tries to trust in God to help her understand her relationships with the people in her life and not prejudge them.

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About the Author:

Robin Jones Gunn has a passion for communicating God's love to young hearts. She began writing story books for toddlers when her children were little. Her husband, Ross, has been a youth minister for over twenty years. While on a camping trip with teens from their youth group, Robin found some of the girls hiding away in their tent reading a stack of novels they'd brought with them from the library.

Curious as to what could keep these girls away from the sun, surf and guys, Robin borrowed three of their books. As she read them, her heart broke. They were not the kinds of stories these girls should be reading! After the camping trip Robin went to her Bible Bookstore and bought every book she could find that she thought would be interesting for the girls and have a good influence on them. The teens read all the books in a week and asked for more.

"There aren't any more," Robin told them. "That was all I could find." The teens challenged Robin by saying, "Then you write some for us. We'll even tell you what to write!"

Each week Robin would take a chapter and read it to her Sunday School class. And each week the teens would rip it apart, telling her how to rewrite the story. It took two years to complete Summer Promise, the first book in the CHRISTY MILLER series which was released in 1988. The twelve book series has sold over a million copies worldwide. Together with the SIERRA JENSEN SERIES, her books have won the hearts of thousands of girls.

A prolific writer, Robin has authored countless books and articles Many of her books have appeared on the Christian Bestsellers List. She has won the Evangelical Press Association Award for articles, the Mt. Hermon Pacesetter Award, the Lucille Gardner Poetry Scholarship, and the Sherwood E. Wirt Award. size : 5.2 x 7.4

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6 Up-A senior in high school, Sierra has a number of concerns to deal with. As she waits to hear from a potential boyfriend, watches her grandmother become childlike, and struggles with the fact that her best friend is avoiding her, she is surrounded by shifting relationships. Each situation requires patience and a chance to consider how best to apply biblical truth. A friend's conflict with the PTB ("Powers That Be") provides an avenue for exploring the concept of submission to authority. Kids from evangelical Christian backgrounds will be comfortable with insider asides (e.g., Sierra wears a purity ring) and will appreciate her imperfections and successes as a Christian teen. By book's end, the various relationships have progressed enough to create hope, yet there are no "happily ever after" resolutions. Readers new to the series will have no trouble picking up the necessary background to enjoy this entry.
Faith Brautigam, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL
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