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Peanut Butter Friends in a Chop Suey World

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I just finished reading this book aloud to three of my children, ages 7-13. All of them enjoyed it very much and I did, too. I'm often disappointed in the writing quality of Christian fiction, especially for children, but I was very pleasantly surprised by the level of this one. I lived in Taiwan myself for about six months and found the descriptions spot-on with what I remembered. I see that Deb Brammer has written another book and I'll be buying it, and I hope she will also write more stories about Taiwan and the Chinese culture. There are very few that cover it from a Christian perspective. I highly recommend this book.

I was best friends with the authors daughter for about 10 years. She is a really nice person (so is her daughter:). What I really like about this book is that she knows what things are really like in Taiwan, since she lived there for many, many years. The situations Amy gets into are realistic, so it's also a glimps into what life in Taiwan really is like. A great piece of work Deb!

I love to read. So when my 9 year old granddaughter asked me to read her latest book. I did. After all, I came home from BlueRidge last spring with three of Vonda Skinner Skelton's books expecting my grandchildren to fall in love with them.

I told granddaughter I couldn't read it until I got back from my trip. She and her family left for Haiti and Husband and I left for a tour "Following Paul's Footsteps" ~~that is a story for another day.

Granddaughter's, other grandpa is a missionary to China. He goes once a year and visits and prays for the pastors of many home churches. He has many fascinating stories.

And the title of this book was "Peanut Butter Friends in a Chop Suey World" by Deb Brammer.

I am glad I read it.

Whether we travel across the sea to witness for our Lord, or just go to the corner market, we start out all pumped up. We are going to win hearts for God. But we are often not prepared to learn. And yes, we have to first learn the needs of others before we try to give them the answers.

In my opinion this book is not just for children.

The other children Amy meets are divided into two groups: her "Peanut Butter" friends fellow Americans living in Taiwan and everybody else. She has nothing in common with the Taiwanese girls, she thinks, and their food is very strange. I recommend this for any child who is culturally the odd one out.