Beverly Lewis for a 13 year old?

I just finished this series and I would not allow my 13 year old to read them.  In the first book, The Covenant, one daughter conceives out of wedlock.  There is a lot of focus on the girls’ season of rumpshringe, when they are allowed to explore outside of their community.  Beverley Lewis has books for younger girls.  We have one titled, Once Upon a Summer, but I have not read it yet.  You may want to check those out.  Hope that helps. 🙂

I love Beverly Lewis!  I don’t think I would recommend her adult novels for a young girl though.  As someone else mentioned the focus at times is on the characters indiscretions which may not be appropriate.  There are a few mild “love scenes”, nothing intense just alluded to, but still not for young girls I don’t think. 

Blessings!

Sharity

I’m going to lovingly throw in my two-cents and suggest that love stories be highly limited for young teens. My experience with my first three daughters has been that they are tempted to sort of ‘live there’ in that romantic world. It can push the age of their heart’s awakening forward to the point that it becomes very difficult to keep the bottle of their affection on the shelf until the proper time. That is where we end up with flirtatiousness and unsanctioned relationships (if this comes to full-bloom). Better, I think, to concentrate their influences on what it looks like for a godly young woman to be in her home, serving her family. Being an older mom, I feel a tendency to wave the warning flag at times, but I never mean to offend.

Blessings,

Cindy

I have read all of her books just recently because they were given to me for free and I would say that it isn’t appropriate for a 13 year old.  They are clean books but they deal with a lot of complicated issues and not just the romantic aspect that does come up but what I get more concerned with is that most of the stories take place in the Amish girls rumschpringe.  This is a time where they court and dabble in the world before they decide whether they want to commit to their heritage.  All the girls in every book I have read all gone through some hard decisions that entail sometimes going against their parents wishes, the churches wishes, secrets kept from the parents, it almost makes the children in the stories be autonomous from God, from their family, so I believe it would require some maturity and firm understanding of their beliefs from the reader.