Spring Breakdown
February 2nd, 2010. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads, WILD Cards.
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
and the book:
Spring Breakdown (Carter House Girls)
Zondervan (February 1, 2010)
***Special thanks to Bridgette Brooks of ZONDERKIDZ for sending me a review copy.***
Melody Carlson has written more than 200 books for teens, women, and children. Before publishing, Melody traveled around the world, volunteered in teen ministry, taught preschool, raised two sons, and worked briefly in interior design and later in international adoption. “I think real-life experiences inspire the best friction,” she says. Her wide variety of books seems to prove this theory.
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Product Details:
List Price: $9.99
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (February 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031071494X
ISBN-13: 978-0310714941
ISLAND BREEZES
I love the Carter House Girls. I’ve grown very fond of the girls, even Eliza. If you’ve been reading these books, you know why I said even Eliza. She certainly makes it difficult for people to like her.
Mrs. Carter plans on a nice, quiet little spring break at the General’s house in Palm Beach. As usual, when these girls get together, one thing leads to another and they all end up in Palm Beach.
Mrs Carter uses this opportunity for another modeling gig for the girls. Will they manage to pull this off? It becomes more of a problem when the guys all end up in Florida.
Along with all the teenage angst, they have to deal with Eliza pulling a disappearing act. Where is she and why didn’t she tell anyone where she was going?
Do you all like surprise endings? You know I’m not going to give it all away – just enough to arouse your curiosity.
I was afraid that with graduation being so close for the girls, this would be the last book in the series. Yea! There’s another one. At the back of the book you are treated to a bonus of the first chapter of Last Dance.
AND NOW…THE FIRST CHAPTER: Just press the button!
February 2nd, 2010 at 13:48
I like DJ, she’s got her head on straight, but I don’t like the fact that she, not Mrs. Carter, seems to be the one in charge. What most of these girls need is an adult who cares enough to say “no”.