divorce Archives - Redeemed Reader https://redeemedreader.com/tag/divorce/ Kids' Books. Culture. Christ. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:03:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redeemedreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cropped-favicon-32x32.png divorce Archives - Redeemed Reader https://redeemedreader.com/tag/divorce/ 32 32 Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo https://redeemedreader.com/raymie-nightingale-by-kate-dicamillo/ https://redeemedreader.com/raymie-nightingale-by-kate-dicamillo/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:03:15 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=19118 Three 10-year-old girls cope with life’s ups and downs by learning to rely on each other, in Raymie Nightingale, a story with "magical" elements.

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/raymie-nightingale-by-kate-dicamillo/feed/ 3 Spelling It Out by Margaret Finnegan https://redeemedreader.com/spelling-it-out-by-margaret-finnegan/ https://redeemedreader.com/spelling-it-out-by-margaret-finnegan/#respond Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:17:05 +0000 https://redeemedreader.com/?p=44250 In Spelling It Out, a competitive speller discovers his own strengths as well as the value of family.

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/spelling-it-out-by-margaret-finnegan/feed/ 0 Blended by Sharon Draper https://redeemedreader.com/blended-by-sharon-draper/ https://redeemedreader.com/blended-by-sharon-draper/#respond Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:31:29 +0000 https://redeemedreader.com/?p=44169 Isabella is blended: half-white, half-black. Soon, she's going to be in a blended family, too. How do you find your identity when you're all mixed up?

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/blended-by-sharon-draper/feed/ 0 The Beat I Drum by Dusti Bowling https://redeemedreader.com/the-beat-i-drum-by-dusti-bowling/ https://redeemedreader.com/the-beat-i-drum-by-dusti-bowling/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:55:00 +0000 https://redeemedreader.com/?p=43628 In The Beat I Drum, Dusti Bowling follows a character from her earlier best-seller as he navigates a move and a new relationship with his father.

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/the-beat-i-drum-by-dusti-bowling/feed/ 0 The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis Holt https://redeemedreader.com/the-ambassador-of-nowhere-texas-by-kimberly-willis-holt/ https://redeemedreader.com/the-ambassador-of-nowhere-texas-by-kimberly-willis-holt/#respond Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:05:59 +0000 https://redeemedreader.com/?p=30916 "Nowhere Texas" is better known as Antler, the small town that Zachary Beaver visited in an earlier novel that bears his name.

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/the-ambassador-of-nowhere-texas-by-kimberly-willis-holt/feed/ 0 Quiet Family Dramas: Four Recent Middle-grade novels https://redeemedreader.com/quiet-family-dramas-four-recent-middle-grade-novels/ https://redeemedreader.com/quiet-family-dramas-four-recent-middle-grade-novels/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:10:13 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=25039 A roundup of recent middle-grade novels about family formation and dissolution. Stories, like people, begin at home, and no matter how fanciful or adventurous middle-grade fiction may be, its mainstay remains what it’s always been: the family.  Four recent novels by award-winning authors present families in the process of bereaving, breaking up, or re-forming, all…

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/quiet-family-dramas-four-recent-middle-grade-novels/feed/ 3 Mayday by Karen Harrington https://redeemedreader.com/mayday-by-karen-harrington/ https://redeemedreader.com/mayday-by-karen-harrington/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:11:23 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=19502 In Mayday, 13-year-old Wayne discovers that even a plane crash can have a silver lining, and treasures may hide under life’s hard knocks. Mayday by Karen Harrington.  Little, Brown, 2016, 344 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grade, 10-12 Recommended for: ages 10-14 While flying home from the funeral of his Uncle Reed at Arlington National Cemetery,…

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/mayday-by-karen-harrington/feed/ 0 Tru and Nelle by G. Neri https://redeemedreader.com/tru-and-nelle-by-g-neri/ https://redeemedreader.com/tru-and-nelle-by-g-neri/#comments Wed, 04 May 2016 12:51:22 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=19145 Tru and Nelle by G. Neri.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, 336 pages Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 8-10 Recommended for: ages 8-12 Bottom Line: Based on the childhood friendship of Harper Lee and Truman Capote, this middle-grade novel highlights the experiences that shaped an American classic. Tru (short for Truman) is a fussy little clothes-horse…

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/tru-and-nelle-by-g-neri/feed/ 1 Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead https://redeemedreader.com/goodbye-stranger-by-rebecca-stead/ https://redeemedreader.com/goodbye-stranger-by-rebecca-stead/#respond Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:08:47 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=16162 Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead. Wendy Lamb Books, 2015. 304 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 10-12 Recommended For: Ages 12-15 Bottom Line: Three best friends attempt to navigate seventh grade with their one rule–no fights–still in effect in this contemporary realistic fiction novel. Best friends since the fourth grade, Bridge, Tab, and Emily enter seventh grade…

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/goodbye-stranger-by-rebecca-stead/feed/ 0 A+ Attitude (Morgan Love Series) by Stephanie Perry Moore https://redeemedreader.com/a-attitude-morgan-love-series-by-stephanie-perry-moore/ https://redeemedreader.com/a-attitude-morgan-love-series-by-stephanie-perry-moore/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:49:02 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=16083 A+ Attitude (Morgan Love Series #1) by Stephanie Perry Moore. Lift Every Voice Books (a Moody Imprint), 2011. 144 pages. Reading Level: Chapter Books, ages 6-10 Recommended For: Ages 6-10, especially girls Bottom Line: A Christian realistic fiction series about a young African American girl wrestling with family dynamics, a new school, and a bad…

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/a-attitude-morgan-love-series-by-stephanie-perry-moore/feed/ 0 The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall https://redeemedreader.com/the-penderwicks-at-point-mouette-by-jeanne-birdsall/ https://redeemedreader.com/the-penderwicks-at-point-mouette-by-jeanne-birdsall/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:19:35 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=14809 While Rosalind and the Penderwick parents are off on their own adventures, the remaining Penderwicks head to Point Mouette on the Maine coast for a very eventful summer vacation.

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/the-penderwicks-at-point-mouette-by-jeanne-birdsall/feed/ 0 The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes https://redeemedreader.com/the-distance-between-lost-and-found-by-kathryn-holmes/ https://redeemedreader.com/the-distance-between-lost-and-found-by-kathryn-holmes/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:00:45 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=14730 The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes. HarperTeen, 2015. 306 pages. Reading Level: Young Adults, ages 12-15 Recommended for: ages 15-18 Bottom Line: This YA survival story offers thrilling outdoor adventure and relevant questions about faith but doesn’t quite close the circle. Hallelujah Joy Calhoun, 17, isn’t super-religious, as everyone guesses, but her…

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]]> https://redeemedreader.com/the-distance-between-lost-and-found-by-kathryn-holmes/feed/ 0 Motorcycles, Sushi, and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue https://redeemedreader.com/motorcycles-sushi-and-one-strange-book-by-nancy-rue/ https://redeemedreader.com/motorcycles-sushi-and-one-strange-book-by-nancy-rue/#respond Thu, 05 May 2011 16:11:01 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=13908 Motorcycles, Sushi, and One Strange Book, by Nancy Rue.  Zondervan, 2010, 211 pages.  (Real Life series #1) Reading Level: Middle grades, ages 10-12 Recommended for: Ages 12-14 Bottom line: 16-year-old Jessie’s struggles to overcome ADHD and reconcile with her father are interesting and believable, but makes Christianity look more like a 12-step program than a…

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