Nancy Rue
Tommy Nelson, 127 pp./140 pp., $9.99/ $7.99
Tommy Nelson has given Nancy Rue’s 12-year-old The Lily Series a cosmetic makeover and a re-release on life. The three fiction and three non-fiction books in this series for tweens could be summed up in this line from The Body Book: “God made growth—all kinds of growth—a gradual process that takes time.” The stories about sixth-grader Lily Robbins and her Girlz Only Club friends dramatize the foibles of entering the life pubescent, while the non-fiction entries give girls the facts of what they can expect for their changing bodies and relationships, as well as encouragement to embrace the process as “a God thing.” In Lily Robbins, MD our heroine witnesses a car accident and commits herself and her cohort (without express consent) to mastering first aid with the kind of passion reserved for those who had a completely different passion last week. She learns some lessons about asking instead of telling God and others who she is and what to do. The Body Book provides straight answers to the Girlz Only Club’s questions and space to respond prayerfully to them.
