Webster Bible Church and Webster Christian School Library Blog

Behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark works for the FBI. For over a year he has been stalking a killer called Eve. Daniel’s obsession with understanding the mind of  “Eve” and trying to catch this serial killer have cost him his marriage. During every new moon the killer abducts and murders  a young woman, and there have [...]

Eighteen-year-old Lia is trapped in a secret world of anorexia and self-inflicted cutting as she tries to cope with the death of her best friend and broken family relationships. Christians find it hard to talk about mental illness.  My mother used to say, “Christians are allowed (by other Christians) to be sick from the shoulders down, but not in their [...]

Kyle’s family is excited about starting their vacation on the Pacific Coast of Oregon.  While walking the beach, they come across a sign warning about the threat of earthquakes followed by tsunamis in that region. Later that evening, thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his younger sister, BeeBee, in the hotel room when an earthquake strikes, causing a fire to [...]

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Miller and her sister, Rosie, are left to manage the village wool mill after their father’s death.  The village folk would say that the mill is cursed, and as much as Charlotte would like to ignore their superstitions, strange things keep happening to defeat and destroy the work at the mill. Finally, in [...]

When his musician mother and stepfather launch a singing tour around the country, thirteen-year-old Quest and his older stepsister, Angela, take a year off from school and join their parents on the tour, living in a luxurious tour bus. For the first concert, the family travels to Philadelphia–the very city where Angela’s real Mom died in the [...]

As twelve-year-old Henry York sleeps one night in his attic bedroom, two knobs suddenly protrude through the plaster on the wall.   Henry scrapes away more plaster to reveal 100 cupboards that lead to entirely different worlds. Really, I didn’t care for this book. At the start I didn’t like it because I felt the author worked too [...]

A young Vietnamese girl decides to plant a few lima beans in the soil of a trash-filled vacant lot in downtown Cleveland.  Her simple act inspires others in the neighborhood to venture out and clear away another patch of soil to garden. As time goes on, the lot gets cleaned up and neighbors of varying ethnicity and [...]

Dinnie’s Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max “kidnap” her, taking her along to Switzerland where Uncle Max begins a new job as headmaster of an International School. Although Dinnie misses her family desperately, she makes friends with other middle schoolers of varied nationalities and gets the opportunity to learn new things like the Italian language, photography and skiiing. A pleasant, gentle [...]

High schooler Jerry Siegel was more comfortable with fictional characters like Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers than he was with his own classmates.   He loved to read stories or watch movies about superheroes, and he also wrote his own exciting stories.  Jerry did have one friend, Joe Shuster, who was a lot like him and [...]

Jenna Fox awakens to a strange world.  She’s turned seventeen and her family has moved from Boston to California, but she can’t remember much of anything–about herself, her family, even what many common words mean.  They tell her she was in a serious accident over a year ago.  Jenna watches home movies from her childhood to try to [...]