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Departures
Author: Robin Jones Gunn, Wendy Lee Nentwig

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Product Description From Robin Jones Gunn, bestselling author of The Christy Miller Series and the Sierra Jensen Series, and Wendy Lee Nentwig, author of the popular Unmistakably Cooper Ellis series, comes Departures- In "Now Boarding at Gate 10," it's the summer after Christy Miller's high school graduation, and she's still hurting from Todd's recent departure. Her plans for a relaxing summer are interrupted when she and her family fly to Wisconsin for her grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. But her time in the Midwest turns out to be more than she'd bargained for when someone from her past shows a romantic interest in her. Will her summer vacation change the course of her future forever? In "Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Phone," Cooper Ellis and her best friend, Claire, are flying to Seattle to spend the Fourth of July with Cooper's aunt Penny. The girls can hardly believe how perfectly everything goes upon their arrival: Penny is the best letting them explore the city, eat whatever they want, and practice driving her car. But Cooper and Claire take their newfound freedom too far one night, and it costs them much more than they'd bargained for. Will Cooper have to leave Seattle, and Penny, without resolution amongst her family? "In The Event of a Water Landing" finds fifteen-year-old Sierra Jensen on a fast-paced vacation to Montana with her friend Janna. But her trip turns sour when Janna seems to have time only for guys. Sierra is concerned about Janna's all-consuming interest in having a boyfriend. Why can't Sierra find friends to just hang out with? Will all her relationships revolve around guys? Sierra must discover the key to a faith that will keep her happy, even when others constantly disappoint her. About the Author Robin Jones Gunn has a passion for communicating God's love to young hearts. She began writing story books for toddlers when her children were little. Her husband, Ross, has been a youth minister for over twenty years. While on a camping trip with teens from their youth group, Robin found some of the girls hiding away in their tent reading a stack of novels they'd brought with them from the library. Curious as to what could keep these girls away from the sun, surf and guys, Robin borrowed three of their books. As she read them, her heart broke. They were not the kinds of stories these girls should be reading! After the camping trip Robin went to her Bible Bookstore and bought every book she could find that she thought would be interesting for the girls and have a good influence on them. The teens read all the books in a week and asked for more. "There aren't any more," Robin told them. "That was all I could find." The teens challenged Robin by saying, "Then you write some for us. We'll even tell you what to write!" Each week Robin would take a chapter and read it to her Sunday School class. And each week the teens would rip it apart, telling her how to rewrite the story. It took two years to complete Summer Promise, the first book in the CHRISTY MILLER series which was released in 1988. The twelve book series has sold over a million copies worldwide. Together with the SIERRA JENSEN SERIES, her books have won the hearts of thousands of girls. A prolific writer, Robin has authored countless books and articles Many of her books have appeared on the Christian Bestsellers List. She has won the Evangelical Press Association Award for articles, the Mt. Hermon Pacesetter Award, the Lucille Gardner Poetry Scholarship, and the Sherwood E. Wirt Award. Thankfully, no one stays a teenager forever, and we manage to leave behind the turbulence of those years for adult life. But some of us retain a heart for young people...a special ability to reach teens at their level and communicate in ways they can understand. Wendy Lee Nentwig is one of those gifted people. Growing up in the beautiful San Francisco Bay area, Wendy watched lots of television and read everything she could find. In the process, she became a storehouse of pop culture trivia, along with beginning to develop her own unique writing style. That style was also greatly shaped by her new found faith, thanks to an insistent friend's repeated invitation to church. She became both, serving as editor-in-chief of her college newspaper, where she also wrote a regular column. After graduating from Biola University with a degree in journalism, Wendy spent a month in Amsterdam on a short-term missions trip and determined to return. Fifteen months later, she did just that, and spent the next two years in Amsterdam working with teens at the Crossroads International Church and traveling throughout Europe. Back in the U.S., Wendy landed a job as assistant editor of Virtue magazine, spent nine months at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Washington, D.C., and completed an editorial internship at Seventeen magazine in New York City. Along the way, she continued to refine her writing style, and experienced the joy of seeing her work in print with the publication of her first two novels for teens, Freshman Blues and Spring Break. Wendy currently makes her home in Tennessee, where she serves as the managing editor of Aspire magazine. She has continued to work with teens at her local church and contributes regularly to CCM magazine. The Unmistakably Cooper Ellis series is Wendy's first for Bethany House. Her most recent addition to the series is Subway Tokens in the Sand, Book 3.

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Robin Jones Gunn

Robin grew up in Orange County, California and has lived in all kinds of interesting places, including Reno and Hawai’i.
She and her husband currently live near Portland, Oregon and have been married for 30 years. They spent their first 22 years of marriage working together in youth ministry, and enjoying life with their son and daughter who are now both grown.
As a frequent speaker at local and international events, one of Robin’s favorite topics is…

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ISBN: 9780764222719
ISBN-10: 0764222716
Published: 10/01/1999
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Imprint: Baker
Subject: Fiction

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