April 12, 2005
True: Real Stories About God Showing Up in the Lives of Teens
(Filed under: Reviews: Books)True: Real Stories About God Showing Up in the Lives of Teens
by Irene Dunlap
Nonfiction
2004
Over 300 pages of inspiring and miraculous stories of God moving in the lives of teens can be pretty amazing. That's the idea.
Cool factor: In addition to everyday stories from average teens you'll find stories from Christian rockers like Audio Adrenaline, PAX 217, Slick Shoes, LaRue and others. But they're not hyped as rock star stories. In fact, if you don't recognize their name you'll have to flip to the biographies in the back to see who's famous and who's not. That's a nice bit of anti-star worship.
Readability: With bite-size stories written by tons of different people, it's hard to get bored. If one story isn't working, just skip to the next one.
Bottom line: Irene Dunlap has worked on several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, but True is no hokey bowl of soup.
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at April 12, 2005 06:02 PM
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hey i read this book and it was so insparational to me... i can't believe that so many teens are exactly like me!! Plus i really started thinking about it a lot over the summer because i had been doing tons of things i really shouldn't of been doing. So, yea this book and a lot of good friends have been helping me... i just wanted to say thank-you for this book... and thank-you for writeing it...
Posted by: Becky at September 22, 2005 05:44 PM