Don't Know Where, Don't Know When by Annette Laing
This was a wonderful book. It is told with a sense of humor that is engaging and not condensending to it's audience.
Hannah and her brother Alex move form California to Snipesville Georgia. Let's just say that Hannah isn't to happy about this development. In Snipesville they meet Brandon who they befriend. They are trying to find something to do and go into the college library where they run into a strange Professor. Upon leaving they notice that all the computers are gone and the librarian is typing on a typewriter. When they leave the building the country side changes and all of the buildings are no longer there.
Where are the kids? and how did they get there?
This is a great adventure that would be a great summer read for pre-teens and even teenagers (heck I enjoyed it and I am waaay past my teens). And don't tell them but they may even learn something along the way.
Kailin Gow is the author of over 30 books for all generations, but her specialty is the young adult/teen genre. Her books have been recommended by PBS Kids, the PTA, homeschooling organizations, and on the Best Teens Books list. She is a mentor for young women, has founded 3A for Autism (Actors, Artists, and Authors for Autism), and runs a publishing and production company known as Sparklesoup, a mid-size publisher and production company.
Her latest young adult fiction novel is Rise of the Fire Tamer.
After winning a contest for a popular game called Wordwick Games, five teens Gemma, Sparks, Rio, Kat, and Jack, are invited to stay at Wordwick Games inventor Henry Word’s mysterious castle and play the newest level of Workwick Games. Little do they know, the castle is the doorway to a wondrous world call Anachronia where words can be used as weapons, power, and commodity. There is unrest in Anachronia, and if the five teens can follow the rules of Wordwick Games and prove to be the best player, one of them will be crowned Ruler of Anachronia.
My Take: What a good book!! I found myself drawn into the action right from the beginning. My favorite parts were the little paragraphs at the end of each chapter that told you what each of the main characters was doing or thinking at the end of that chapter. I liked that the book had good strong female characters. It addressed that teens are usually thinking what everyone is thinking of them.
I liked the fact that words had such power in the game. Words do have a strong impact in our world and I thought that the story illustrated this well as to the destructive power of some of the words that were used.
I will definately be passing this on to my teenage daughter and even my older daughter who is in her 20's.
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button (in the sidebar). 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!
Today's Wild Card author is:
Nancy Rue
and the book:
Motorcycles, Sushi, & One Strange Book
Zondervan (April 16, 2010)
***Special thanks to Pam Mettler of Zondervan for sending me a review copy.***
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband Jim have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee.
