Final Book Review for A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller

A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller is a great book for young readers.  This is a mystery that is set in Middlefield Amish country.  The main character of the story is a 13 year old girl named Mary Beth Mullet.  She is the oldest of 4 children, the rest all boys.  She years for freedom from taking care of all her responsibilities and privacy from her brothers. 

I really like that the book was Christian based, but as a Christian parent, could actually wish for stronger points to be made about the love of God.  It was not the theme through the book.  I would like to see Christian books for young readers that focus on God, not just a story line. 

I did like that the book seemed to be written true to the Middlefield Amish nature and from what I read and researched myself afterwards portrayed Amish life to be a realistic novel.  I am not an expert on the Amish, so I can not say that for sure.  The book was written well enough and I enjoyed the story enough that I want to read the second book to this mystery series.  This will also be a book that I leave on my homeschooling shelf for my children to read when they are older. 

The views in this book review are my own and not influenced by anybody or anything.  I did receive this book for free from BookSneeze.com and was provided by Thomas Nelson books but I am not obligated to review this book in any positive or negative light, only my own opinion.  I am not being compensated for my book review at all besides being able to keep this book.

A Summer Secret - 2

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A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller is the first book in a series of Christian mystery novels written for teens/young readers.  I am enjoying this book so far.  The mystery of this barn is attracting.  It is like reading a modern-day Christian Nancy Drew novel.  And for myself, being an oldest child and wanting to just have my own space away from my younger sister, I can relate to Mary Beth.  Although, she has a twin brother and 2 younger brothers, so it's is more than I had to deal with.  Although.....if you've ever met my sister, you'd probably agree with me that she would count as 2 younger brothers.  So all I was missing really was the twin.  lol  I love you Tracy!!  

I think this will definitely be a book that I can save for Stinky to read.  And I also think that it is a good chance that I will find the rest of this series.  Now, back to my reading!

 

Book Review - Chapter 1 - A Summer Secret

book review chapter 1

 

I received A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller from BookSneeze.com and today I started reading it.  Now even though I read all of the time, I do not remember what I read really well.  Actually, I just don't remember fiction stories really well unless they are very good.  So since I need to do a book review on my blog for recieving this book from booksneeze.com, I am going to keep track of the chapters that I read so at the end, I have a good chapter summary to refresh my memory.


So in chapter 1 we meet the character of the story named Mary Beth Mullet.  She is an Amish girl of the Middefield Amish.  She is the oldest child of four children, and the others are all boys.  In this chapter we are introduced to Mary Beth's yearning for some quiet  and independence.  But as the oldest child, her mother looks to her for most of the help.  Mary Beth has found a place of solitude, but it is a place where her parents have told her not to go.  She doesn't think the barn is that bad, but her Daed says that it's ready to fall over.  When Mary Beth is there, it is done in secret.  We also learn that she is an artist and has a journal that she sketches pictures in.

 
 

Mary Beth finds a button in the barn and it is a mystery to her because the Amish don't use buttons.  Buttons are thought of to be an accessory that is not needed and therefore don't have them.  Mary Beth's thoughts are to where the button belonged before she found it.