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Fresh and honest are the two words that came to mind as I read Jenny B. Jones latest installment of the Katie Parker series (The Big Picture, A Katie Parker Production Act Three). Katie lives in In Between, Texas with her darling foster parents and endearingly crazy foster granny. When her mother is released from prison, she wants to start a new life with her daughter in a new town, and Katie is forced to walk away from a town she loves and a family who dotes on her. She also leaves behind a fabulous church, friends, and a boyfriend who suddenly can’t take his eyes off his ex. Even though life with her mom in the trailer park goes downhill very quickly, Katie falls in with a nice group of kids from a quaint church, including the pastor’s son, who’s dreamy enough to make her and the reader forget about that guy back in In Between. What most impressed me about Katie Parker (and Jenny B. Jones) is the true portrayal of what it is to be a Christian teenager these days. Katie listens to Fallout Boy and Chris Tomlin. She loves Diet Dr. Pepper and the Lord. She talks as honestly about her relationship with Jesus as she does her swimsuit riding up. What a beautiful example she is to teenagers of today. Jones talks about some very serious subjects and confronts them with honesty, but also humor. Don’t read this book in a crowd, unless you’re okay with people turning and giving you weird looks during all the laugh out loud moments. The worst part of reading The Big Picture was finishing the book and leaving behind characters I loved. Katie, Maxine, Tate, and many of the others will stay with me for a long time. Publisher:
NavPress Buy it now from our affiliate Bookstore CrossPurposesBooks.com
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