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Review: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

By Kasey Giard | July 30, 2018 - 7:00 am |July 8, 2018 Blogger's Favorites, Book Review and Content, Nonfiction

Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Doubleday Canada
Published on November 15, 2016

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About Born a Crime
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal … Continue reading →

Review: Seekers of the Lost Boy by Taryn Hayes

By Kasey Giard | May 12, 2014 - 7:00 am |April 27, 2017 Book Review and Content, Christian World-View, Clean Fiction, Contemporary, Middle Grade 8-12

Seekers of the Lost Boy
Taryn Hayes
Maledi
Published May 3, 2013

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A light at the water’s edge prompts twelve year-old Simon to leave his family and return to the shore one last time. There he finds a bottle containing a message that will send his family on an incredible quest. The author of the message, a young boy, simply asks: Who is God and does he care about me?

As Simon’s family discusses their own answers, he can’t help wanting to communicate with this boy who asked the question so many years ago. With their father’s permission, … Continue reading →