Departures: Now Boarding at Gate 10 (Christy Miller)/Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Phone (Cooper Ellis)/In the Event of a Water Landing (Sierra Jensen)
Robin Jones Gunnhas 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 Nentwigis 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 ofVirtuemagazine, spent nine months at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Washington, D.C., and completed an editorial internship atSeventeenmagazine 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 BluesandSpring 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 toCCMmagazine.The Unmistakably Cooper Ellisseries is Wendy's first for Bethany House. Her most recent addition to the series isSubway Tokens in the Sand, Book 3.size : 5.4 x 8.3