Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jerry B. Jenkins (Author), Tim LaHaye (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: Left Behind: The Kids

This series is based on the best-selling adult Left Behind series. Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Our four teen heroes--Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan--are still spooked after the amazing events of The Vanishings (the first book in the Left Behind: The Kids series), when Christ called back millions of his faithful in the blink of an eye, leaving these kids who hadn't accepted Jesus as "instant orphans." Facing the Future continues the cliff-hanging ending of the third book, Through the Flames, where the kids successfully pull off a sting on the man who murdered Lionel's uncle and convert countless others to life with Christ. But they soon realize they have even more to worry about: Bruce thinks he's fingered the great deceiver, the Antichrist, a man named Nicolae Carpathia. The Left Behind kids break out their Bibles to form the Kids Tribulation Force, while Bruce outlines why Carpathia has taken over the instrument of all future evil, the United Nations, and a secret meeting with an eyewitness to evil confirms the kids' worst fears.

The Evangelical Christian science fiction series Left Behind: The Kids is a youth-oriented story line based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's bestselling Left Behind. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes

Language Notes

Text: Spanish, English (translation)

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842321969
• ISBN-13: 978-0842321969
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #481,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Religions > Christianity > Series

More About the Author

Dr. Jerry B. Jenkins, former vice president for publishing and currently writer-at-large for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, is the author of more than 160 books, including the 63,000,000-selling Left Behind series.

Also the former editor of Moody Magazine, Dr. Jenkins's writing has appeared in Time, Reader's Digest, Parade, Guideposts, and dozens of Christian periodicals. Jerry and Dr. Tim LaHaye were profiled in a May 24, 2004 cover story in Newsweek magazine entitled "The New Prophets of Revelation."

Jerry's non-fiction books include as-told-to biographies with Hank Aaron, Orel Hershiser, Walter Payton, Nolan Ryan, and many others.

Jenkins also assisted Dr. Billy Graham with his memoirs, Just As I Am, also a New York Times bestseller.

Jerry owns Jenkins Entertainment, a filmmaking company in Los Angeles, and also the Christian Writers Guild, which aims to train tomorrow's professional Christian writers and has nearly 2,000 members worldwide.

www.JerryJenkins.com
www.Jenkins-Entertainment.com
www.ChristianWritersGuild.com

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone needs to read these, March 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4) (Mass Market Paperback)

After reading the fourth book (Facing the Future) of the "Kids Left Behind" series, I would be scared to be here on earth and experience the tribulation and the events that go along with it.

I would say that this will keep you on your toes and you will not want to stop reading. It also leaves you hanging on a cliff, and you will want to read the next book of the series. --TF

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book was hindered by poor characters., August 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book thinking it would be similar to Jane Yollen and Bruce Coville's stunning Armaggedeon Summer. Instead, it seemed preachy. The teen characters were unrealistic and bland. The story line was uninvolving, and it may promote harmful accusations of the Antichrist. It had a few good parts, but it was mostly a waste of time.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written and unengaging!, August 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book portrays god in a poor light, makes poor comments about religions other than Christianity, and has poorly conceived characters. A disgrace to all Christian books.