Review: Excellend book on friendships and faith
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2011
Wish You Were Here (Hidden Diary Series- Volume 1)Sandra ByrdE-Book EditionOriginally Published  2001 by Bethany HouseChristian FictionAges 8-125 StarsIn the first volume of her Hidden Diary Series consists of  a two part story Cross My Heart and Make A Wish . In part  1 the reader meets  Lucy Larson , an only child who is on vacation with her parents on the great Catalina Island. As she  waits patiently for her cousin Katie to be able to join her, she soon learns she will not be able to make it. Now what is  Lucy suppose to do? With no friends on the Island she may as well pack up her things and let her mom and dad send her back home.  Due to her father's  line of work, each summer they go  to a new vacation spot. It's hard to make friends when you are only  there a couple months. When  Lucy discovers a  hidden diary and the key in a secret place in her  room, little did she know that it would be  a start of a summer friendship.  In part 2, we follow along as the mystery of the diary  is solved  and  Lucy now has a  new friend Serena, who's great grandmother is one of the original writers in the diary. As they read a page a week, their friendship grows along with Lucy's faith.This is a excellent story with a great lesson in life. Not only dealing with friendship, but togetherness as a family also. Being an only child is hard on some kids especially if both parents either work or in Lucy's case her father works and her mother has her hobby she deals with.  We also learn that  sometimes the  one that is the leader of the pack so to speak may have other problems . To compensate for their home life they become better known as the top dog, if you want to be friends with me  you do what I say type of person. Not only is the lesson on friendship the major focal point of the story we also find a lesson on faith. Without being preachy, the book reminds us that we always have a friend that sticks closer than a brother and that is God. To an adult the book may seem like it is written in a hurried paced, that things happen to fast, but in the mind of a  eight year old reading it, it moves at the right pace.I recommend this whole series for all girls and even their parents to read.