Hold on Tight (The Sierra Jensen Series #10) - Softcover

Gunn, Robin Jones

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9781561796373: Hold on Tight (The Sierra Jensen Series #10)

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ISBN 10: 1561796379 ISBN 13: 9781561796373

Publisher: Focus on the Family, 1998

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While on a trip to Southern California with her friends and her brother who is scouting out potential colleges, Sierra realizes that she must soon make some decisions about her life

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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-Teen girls looking for answers, advice, or just wanting to know if anyone else is going through what they are should check out these books about Sierra Jensen. They have a Christian perspective, but they are not preachy in their presentation. Instead, they give readers opportunity for reflection. In Hold on Tight, Sierra is on a college-scouting trip with a van full of friends and her older brother. She discovers that while she is ready to leave high school, she might not be ready to leave the security of home and family. In Now Picture This, she begins to focus on her relationship with Paul to the exclusion of family and friends. The story addresses the issue of purity in a relationship without sermonizing and touches on how abstinence can also mean being emotionally virtuous. In both titles, the plots are lively, the characters fully developed, and the themes relevant to teens. The author replays enough of past events so that the series entries can be read out of sequence. Even though Sierra and her friends are more mature and articulate than many high school students, teens will identify with them. This series is an offshoot of Gunn's "Christy Miller" series (Bethany).
Pam Hopper Webb, Sandpoint Community Christian School, ID
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