Holly Meredith will turn thirteen on Valentine's Day and she can't wait. Maybe this will be the year she'll get to visit her dad in California. He moved there after her parents divorced four years ago. Since then, Holly has grown very close to her mom and little sister, and she has a best friend, Andie, that she can share everything with. Well, almost everything.

Holly and Andie are having a great seventh grade year. At least until a new boy enrolls in their school. Now Holly and Andie are fighting over him. Jared is one thing the girls can't share.

According to some "Loyalty Papers" the girls created two years ago, one of them has to back off. Should Holly forget Jared so she can save her friendship with Andie? Or should she force Andie to stay away? Desperate to save her friendship with Andie and keep Jared, Holly tries almost everything. But none of her plans seem to work. Can her friendship with Andie be saved?

Originally published as "Holly's First Love", this is the first book in the Holly's Heart Series. It is well written and will keep you and your preteen daughter enthralled. Written in first person, you will truly feel you are having your first crush.

--- reviewed by Laura for Christian Bookshelf

I bought the first book in this series last April for my then 6 year old daughter, and in the past 5 months she has managed to read almost the whole series. She wants to stay up late reading them, because she doesn't want to put them down. I would highly recomend these books to anyone looking for very entertaining and morally sound books.

My eight-year-old is required to do three book reports each week and that can be overwhelming. But the Cul-de-Sac Kids series is a great way to overcome that. The books are entertaining to my child. They do a great service by bridging that gap between easy, babyish books with no real plot and longer, harder books, like Harry Potter. They are easy to understand and read without being simplistic and boring. We have really enjoyed them!

It all begins when Eric wants to find a present for his grandfather. Erics granddad had been living with them every sinceEric's father died. Eric knows what his grandfather knows best.Before he does that he goes to an art classs with a girl named Stacy.(Eric really likes her but doesn't tell her.)Eric trys to make an Egale but he's not to happy about take and gets made. Later the art teacher calls and asked Eric to come back for classes and it worked out!(Here the other part i was telling you about.)Pickle pizza but the problem is that Dee-Dee Winter Trys the pizza and almost [throws up]!Eric is about to give up and giive the Pizza to the birds and then Grandfather eats it and likes it and they all had a great father"s day

this book was funny,educational and even sad in someplaces. You will learn about the "golden rule" better than you have ever understood before. The boy that they call fiddle sticks played the fiddle and liked to play soccer.

In Follow The Dream, Livvy Hudson is a promising young skaterlearning to like the small Colorado town where he dad relocated afterthe death of Livvy's mother. Her skating, with the help of a trainer, is improving all the time and her new friends in the "Girl's Only" club are a constant encouragement. Happiness turns to frustration, though, when Grandma Hudson (now living with them) begins to take too much control of Livvy's life. She's trying to run everything both at home and on the ice! Livvy's anger nearly reaches the boiling point when her grandmother surprises her with a secret -- one that Livvy is eager to embrace. Perhaps Grandma Hudson has had Livvy's best interest in mind all along! The fifth title in the Bethany House Publishers "Girls Only!" series, Follow The Dream is a thoroughly entertaining and engaging story for both pre-teen and teen age readers.

I love reading these books, and especially this one because Stacy feels the same way as I do about frogs! I highly recommend this book, and the whole series!

This 156 page book is an excellent tool for learning the fundamentals of golf. You don't have to be a woman( and I'm not) to benefit from Beverly Lewis' simple instructions and super color photographs. She teaches everything you need to know--and demonstrates them with easy to understand pictures and diagrams from all the angles a novice can't see watching golf on TV.

This book will be useful for anyone wanting a refresher course or can't or doesn't want to spend the money for professional lessons.

I really liked this book because I think its really exciting. The way you don't know what's going to happen. I think this one was my favorite!

This was a great book. Rachel (an amish girl) starts to mess with the modern world. Merry does some things to help, like take her picture, something forbidden to the Amish. Now, find out if Merry can get her friend out of this mess?