Stuarts Run to Faith Grd 4-7 (Arby Jenkins Series)

by Sharon Hambrick

Book Overview

Arby's unlikely friend, Stuart Baltz, wrestles with a tumultuous year at school. He faces conflicts with a godly grandmother, unhappy experiences on the varsity running team, and worries about God... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579242448
• ISBN13: 9781579242442
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: BJU Press
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Stuart's Run to Faith - turned my grandson on to reading

Stuart's Run to Faith is the catapult that sent my grandson over the top as far as reading. After reading this book, he devoured the entire Arby Jenkins series. In the book being reviewed, Stuart is consumed with cross-country and using it to get the notoriety he wants until he reads something given to him by Mr. Watson. Stuart goes through a lot of trials, but ultimately the book given to him by Mr. Watson makes all the difference. My grandson is a middle school student and this book (really this entire Arby Jenkins series)connects with children of this age group. I highly recommend this book and the entire Arby Jenkins series for boys of middle school age.

Touching, yet funny, treatment of spiritual struggles

Hambrick has once again captured both the grief and humor of adolescence. Junior High is riddled with angst, and the daily triumphs and tragedies of the characters are at once painfully real and extremely funny. Stuart's humanity is very believable, making his search for the divine all the more believable. The teaching is Scriptural without being pedantic or "preachy." Read it. Laugh AND cry. And check out the Arby books, too.