I just finished this book yesterday and I enjoyed it. Katy has joined the debate team at her school, and it’s a bit of a change in her routine when she leaves her home and stays all night out of town with her classmates to participate in the debate. She’s also upset about her father’s new beau. How would it feel to have another woman in her home, invading her private kitchen. She doesn’t want a stranger meddling her her and her dad’s lives, so using her debate skills, she’s determined to prove to her father that he doesn’t have to get married just to give Katy a mother. However, Katy’s plan backfires, and she wonders if she’s doing the right thing as she finds herself criticizing her friends, causing hurt feelings. This book was a good read and I think a lot of young people will empathize with these well-developed characters. This book shows how being from a different faith and being dropped into an unfamiliar world, will affect you.

~Cecelia Dowdy~
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. 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!

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and the book:

Katy’s Debate (Katy Lambright Series, The)

Zondervan (May 7, 2010)

***Special thanks to Krista Ocier of Zondervan for sending me a review copy.***

Bestselling, award-winning author Kim Vogel Sawyer has many titles besides “writer.” As a wife, mother of three, grandmother of six, Sunday school teacher, and speaker, her life is full and happily busy. In her spare time she enjoys drama, quilting, and calligraphy. Kim and her husband make their home in Kansas, the setting for many of Kim’s novels.

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Product Details:

List Price: $9.99
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (May 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310719232
ISBN-13: 978-0310719236

AND NOW…THE FIRST CHAPTER: