So Long, Insecurity, Teen Edition Review

About The Book:
 So Long, Insecurity, Teen Edition is a teen version of the New York Times bestselling adult book, So Long, Insecurity by Beth Moore. This magazine-style book mixes words of wisdom from Moore with pictures, quizzes, surveys, scripture, and more to help girls ages 12-16 live based on God’s truth about them as opposed to the world’s false messages. Features in each chapter include: Q & A with Beth (taken from adult book but written to appeal to a younger audience), Sweet Notes (scriptures that pertain to the chapter’s subject), Your Stats (a survey/poll of what girls think regarding the subject), Interviews with real girls (and a few teen spokespeople), a quiz to help girls gauge where they are, Bible characters with similar issues, and a wrap-up section for discussion with a friend or in a group. Girls will have fun reading about boys, fashion, the media, gifts and skills, competing with other girls, and how they can live as secure girls despite the distractions from the world.
My Review:

 So Long, Insecurity, Teen Edition is an interesting magazine-style book with. This book has tons of things that will help your teenage girl with all of insecurities that are in her life. This book includes:

• Questions you have about real life, answered by Beth Moore
• Quizzes to find where you stand on fashion, media, boys, and friends
• Polls where girls like you weigh in on issues of insecurity
• Interviews with real girls on handling tough situations
• Stories of women in the Bible who battled insecurity
• Interviews with girls and teen advocates, including former Victoria’s Secret model Kylie Bisutti, who have gone through the same things you have
• And much, much more!

My  Thoughts:
I like taking the quizzes because it helped me learn more about myself. Even though some of them weren't too good. I took the quiz on How well (or not) you handle your interactions with guys and I got this answer: While it's not a good idea too fall all over guys, it's also not healthy to hide out from them. Work at being yourself no matter who is around. Not exactly what I expected.

At the end of each chapter, is a thing called Bible Girls. Which tells about a certain girl from the bible and her story. Each girls story corresponds with the subject in the chapter. Like Esther is the Bible Girl for the chapter 1: fashion and beauty, The Daughters of Zelophehad for chapter 2: media hype, and so on.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's both fun and full of information. So Long, Insecurity, Teen Edition has both beautiful pictures and helpful info.

What My Mom Thought:

 Beth Moore is well known for her awesome ministry whether she is helping women or families. But this book where she reaches out to teens is probably in my opinion, her best yet. I joined my daughter on reviewing this book and I'm glad I did. The mean girls chapter really spoke to me because something like that happened to my daughter.

 Recently, my daughter had small conflict with a girl that caused a small rift in our family. It was something that shocked us all about this young girl. While my husband and I believe that this young girl was doing this hurtful act towards our daughter because she felt threatened in some way, we were not going to allow ourselves to act on our hurt feelings or our daughter's. Instead we lifted her up in prayer and prayed that whatever this was that was binding this child up and causing her to act out be loosed in the name of Jesus.

 Beth Moore gives our teen girls some really good advice. I think ever mother that has a teen daughter should read this book. It will give you some really insightful advice that could possibly help your daughter AND help you as a parent.

About The Author:
Beth founded Living Proof Ministries in 1994 with the purpose of teaching women how to love and live on God’s Word. She has written numerous books and Bible studies, including Breaking Free, Believing God, and When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, that have been read by women of all ages, races, and denominations. Through the years, American missionaries and expatriates have taken the Bible studies overseas, resulting in Beth Moore Bible study groups popping up all over the world. Beth’s Living Proof Live conferences have taken her to thirty-nine states since 1994 and have been attended by more than 421,000 women. God has graciously given her the opportunity to speak to the body of Christ in many different countries, including Ireland, England, Singapore, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and India. With great joy, she began a radio ministry in 2004 called Living Proof with Beth Moore.

The Merry Adventures of Charlie the Choo-Choo Review

 

About The Book:
 There was once a red and black train that had a rainbow of smoke coming from him and he went by the name Charlie the Choo-Choo.
On this spring morning he had a day off so he decided to travel around. On his way, he met all kind of new friends; some of them are pretty odd and funny...


My Review:
 Charlie the Choo-Choo tells of an adventure to many different places and seeing many odd animals. Along the way many animals help him, like a pink crocodile or a parrot with red sunglasses. But unknowingly, Charlie is helping them, too. Whether he was helping a pink crocodile find a great new meal or flying through the sky on a flying turtle, he was having a ball. He made friends along the way, like Toe the sock eating rabbit. This book is fun and cheerful with colorful pictures. I read my little brother this book and he was laughing the whole time. My brother and I both loved how silly this book was.

About The Author:
Sarit Gilor believes in inspiring creativity, communication, curiosity and imagination in children through reading. In fact, evidence suggests that children who read for enjoyment every day are more likely to do well at school, develop a broader vocabulary and increase general knowledge than those who don't. She has a lot of fun creating stories that entertain her young readers and hopefully teach them important everyday lessons in a fun and easy to understand manner.


 Disclosure: This book was given to me for free by the Author for my honest review.

Nellie's Magic Glasses Review

 

About The Book:
 Nellie is a very happy girl… But when she went with her Mom to the eye doctor and he said that she needs to wear glasses, she was not so thrilled about the idea… Until she found out that she has magic glasses…


My Review:
Nellie's Magic Glasses is a fun way for children to learn more about glasses, whether they wear glasses or not. This book tells of a nice little girl named Nellie who has to wear glasses. As any child, she is embarrassed to wear them in front of her classmates But her teacher tells her about the amazing thing her glasses can do. After reading this to my little brother, he was amazed that glasses can do that. About an hour later he was still asking me about glasses and what their purpose is.
The Author did a great job telling kids about the great things glasses can do. And not to be worried about what other people think about them because its up to you and how you feel.

About The Author: 
Sarit Gilor believes in inspiring creativity, communication, curiosity and imagination in children through reading. In fact, evidence suggests that children who read for enjoyment every day are more likely to do well at school, develop a broader vocabulary and increase general knowledge than those who don't. She has a lot of fun creating stories that entertain her young readers and hopefully teach them important everyday lessons in a fun and easy to understand manner.


 Disclosure: This book was given to me for free by the Author for my honest review.

If You Were Me and Lived In South Korea Review

   About The Book: Carole P. Roman takes you on a journey this time to Asia, landing in South Korea. Once again, children can learn how life is like for young people on the other side of the globe. From food to famous landmarks, they will learn that's it's easy to find something in common with people in different countries. 

My Review:

 Third times the charm with Carole P. Roman's book, If You Were Me And Lived In South Korea. I never knew there was so many interesting things to learn about South Korea. I would love to be there on the Lunar New Year, getting to see the hanboks and eating festive foods. It really looks like a fun place!!! I loved the picture of the capital city, Seoul. The picture does a wonderful job showing how Seoul is built on the banks of the Hans River. This is the third book in the series A Child's Introduction to Cultures Around the World. I hope Carole comes out with another book in this series because I love reading these books.

 
About The Author: 
Award winning author Carole P. Roman is a former teacher turned businesswoman. She has successfully run a family business with her husband that employs close to five hundred people. Her most favorite job is being grandmother to her many grandchildren. Roman has two wonderful sons and hit the jackpot in the daughter-in-law department. She currently lives on Long Island with her husband. Her first book, Captain No Beard - An Imaginary Tale of a Pirate's Life has been named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012 as well garnered the star of remarkable merit. Captain No Beard has developed in a series of 3 more books. Her next project is the book series I Want To Do Yoga Too. She is currently working on a new educational series that explores different cultures from a child's point of view.

Disclosure: This book was given to me for free by the Author for my honest review.  

Pirates, Pirates! Review

About The Book:

 Imagine you witness a murder but have no clue who the man was, or why he had to die. Imagine you stumble into a rat's nest of piracy and greed and put your own life at stake for the sake of justice. Imagine you don't know who you can still trust.... "No matter how she looked at it, she ended up with far too many suspects. How should she ever get to the bottom of the attack and the murder if almost half the harbor population had a motive? 

My Review:

Saoirse O’Mara's book Pirates, Pirates! is a brilliant book. Like the author's other books in the series A Rogue's Tale she goes on to tell us about Young Tayla. In the story, Tayla witnesses a beating of one of the sailors that work at the dock. Soon after she gets him help he dies. With only a dead sailor for help, Tayla heads out to learn more of this man and what caused the beating. Will Tayla be able to solve the unkown? Will Tayla be hurt in the process?

About The Author: 
Saoirse O’Mara is a German writer, editor, translator and language teacher and currently lives near Berlin, Germany. A Rogue’s Tale isn’t the first fantasy she has written but the first to be published (if you don’t count her children’s book Miro the Dragon–Miro der Drache in German, or her fairy tale The Enchanted Garden). She loves to write in a nice café with some good coffee, milk shake or hot chocolate (coffee most of the time, really) and maybe a small treat, but she absolutely hates typing page after page into her Word document back home. Still, her writing time at cafés belongs to notebook and pen.
You can find out more about her and her other books at her homepage.



 Disclosure: This book was given to me for free by the Author for my honest review.