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Title: The Vanishings (Left Behind: The Kids #1) by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0-8423-2193-4 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (69 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The story has been "Left Behind"...
Comment: In the original "Left Behind" series LaHaye and Jenkins tell a story of what would happen if Christ "raptured" his Church today - taking all of his faithful believers to heaven with him. In "The Kids" series the authors have made a haphazard attempt at adapting their story to a bunch of teenagers whom are all in some way connected to the adults of the original series.
I enjoy the adult series, but as a Sunday School teacher I have a lot of apprehensions about giving this book to children in the 9-12 age range that I so often see it listed as. This book only gets through the first quarter of the first in the adult book. The "ungodly" pasts of the characters is told to explain why they were not taken, but the story does not go far enough. The book cuts off too early and never shows the kids themselves making the realization that their actions are responsible for them being "left behind".
Be careful with this book. It should not just be handed to children, but backed up by discussions with adults who have also read the book. I would recommend using it in a group study however as the chapters are short enough that children ought to be able to read a chapter per week.
Why 3 stars? I like Jenkins and LaHaye. This book has merit and would be good in a group study. But I found certain segments of the book to be "too adult" for nine year olds.
Rating: 5
Summary: People all over the world have vanishe, find out what happed
Comment: (...)I have read the first 6 books of this seirs. It talks about what it will be like when God comes back and takes his church (True belivers) up to heaven with him. I have always belivede in christ, I have read the book of Revulitin, but this story is about for reagular kids who are left behind. They havde tunes of great adventures. As soon as you pick the book up it will most likely be hard to get you away from it. Judd, Vicky, Linol, and Ryan are all left behind. They run into eachother at a chruch and become belivers. I am going to start telling about the first 6 books at once so don't expect to read it all in one book. THey find out that sombody close to lionle is framed to be dead and then sombody kills that person. There pastor thinks he know who the anicrist ( the person who say they are crist and fools a whole lot of people) is and the kids do not want to belive it becuse he looks like a nice guy, but when they hear a story of the guy who was at a metting with him, they belive it one hundred percent. The school opens up again and Judd and Viky go to a school wich had been changed to that name of who they belive is the anticrist. They are not aloud to talk about Jesus or God at school or bring Bibles or anything realet to it. THe kids want to share about God, so with two other kids help they make a newepaper for the high school. The paper was against school ruel so people came and checked every body out to find out who made it. The kids get away with it and go inside the school at night to give them out in another way. All of the kids get away, but the next day some adults go to one of the kids and told them to say who they was working with. This seirs is unbelivably good even if you do not belive in crist ( wich you might after you read the books) becuse it has so much action and discription in it. If you do not by it you should at least check it out form the libary. I only wish iI could tell you evry little detail of the book writhgt now but I can't. The lasts thing I am going to say is PLEAS READ THIS SERIES BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T YOU WILL BE MISSING OUT!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Manipulation
Comment: As far as I can see, the sole purpose of this series is to scare prepubescent children into being Christian. The only message I saw was of the be-completely-submissive-and-unquestioning-or-you-will-end-up-like-these-guys type.
I also noticed that it never mentioned that only a third of the world is Christian, and that only a fraction of those are especially committed to their faith, so the Rapture would technically only apply to about a quarter-billion people.
So. What did I learn? Some Christians aren't afraid to manipulate children to bring them around to their way of thinking. Sometimes the world is very depressing.
This would be okay if it weren't based on just the fundamentalist Christian viewpoint that if you aren't Christian you are doomed. (Because if those guys are right, Ghandi went to Hell.) They could have said that only the pure of heart made it or something like that. But no, it's set up so if you're a Zen Bhuddist, you are evil.
It rather pissed me off.
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Title: Through the Flames (Left Behind: The Kids #3) by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0842321950 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4) by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0842321969 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Nicolae High (Left Behind: The Kids #5) by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0842343253 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Underground (Left Behind: The Kids #6) by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim Lahaye, Chris Fabry ISBN: 0842343261 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Busted! (Left Behind. the Kids, 7) by Tim Lahaye, Chris Fabry, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 084234327X Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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