of Lily Lapp.
"Mom, the second Lily books is out. We need to get it!"
I have one child who reads because she loves to read, another who reads "as necessary" if you please. When it comes to this Lily series, I had to assign "turns". ☺
I have permission to share part of the book "report" my nine year old wrote for this post. H says that she liked this book because it was funny, and that she will remember it because it was entertaining. She says that Lily has to leave her home in New York to go to Pennsylvania. She can't wait to get their so they can unpack and she can find her doll. When they get there they people who lived there before had left boxes that were theirs now. One of the boxes had dolls and her mom said she could pick one. Her grandma was going to help her sew clothes for the doll, but her Grandma believed that dolls shouldn't have faces because they were Amish. There are a lot of adventures and funny parts. In the end Lily gets a new baby brother (even though she wanted a sister), and a new attic bedroom.
Yes! I would recommend this book to girls (probably age 9-13)!
As a mom I am thankful for these quality books that my girls anticipate reading. ☺
Suzanne has loved to write since she was a young teen. After college, she started to write for magazines and became a contributing editor for Christian Parenting Today magazine. Her family moved to Hong Kong for four years, just as the internet was developing, and she continued to write articles in a 44-story high-rise apartment, sending manuscripts 7,000 miles away with a click of a key.
After returning from Hong Kong, Suzanne decided to give her first novel a try. For four and a half months, she worked on an antediluvian computer in a cramped laundry room. She didn't even tell her husband what she was up to. When the novel was completed, she told her family at dinner one night that she had written a book. "That's why there's no food in this house!" said her slightly insensitive sons.
Undaunted...Suzanne found a small royalty publisher for that book and wrote three more (all earned multiple). With help from an agent, she has five books currently under contract with Revell. On September 1st, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World, a non-fiction book of stories and examples about the Old Order Amish, will be released by Revell. The Choice, a novel about the Amish, will follow on January 1st.
Writing, for Suzanne, is a way to express a love of God and His word. With every book or article, she hopes readers get a sense of what faith really looks like in the daily grind. She hopes they realize that life can be hard, but God is good, and never to confuse the two.
Suzanne can be found on-line at: www.suzannewoodsfisher.com
I received a copy of this book for the purpose of review.
