Truth and Dare: One Year of Dynamic Devotions for Girls [Paperback]

Ann-Margret Hovsepian (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2011 | Age Level: 9 and up

Ann-Margret Hovsepian dares girls 8 to 12 to transform their lives and world through active faith in these short devotions featuring specific daily challenges that put learned truth into life-altering action.

 

Truth and Dare is a devotional that transforms Scripture from something learned to something lived. Each daily devotion launches with short Scriptures and simple, relevant messages (truth). Girls explore godly truth about everything from standing up for others to guarding their speech. And each day, girls are challenged (dared) to live out their faith by undertaking specific tasks that foster spiritual growth.

 

Girls will delight in discovering how Scripture can become real in whole new ways as they learn to apply it with each day’s dare. And parents value the solid truth brought by Hovsepian, a respected author and speaker. It ideally suits anyone looking to inspire a young girl to boldly live out her faith.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Truth and Dare: Are you ready for more—more excitement, more adventure, more fun? Yeah? Then take the dare! Dare to discover the secrets to a life that sparkles for God. You’ve got what it takes to make an impact on the world. This devotional just for you is filled with powerful wisdom on everything from godly friendship and serving others to getting along with your parents and worshipping God. It’s advice for real life from the greatest best friend of all: your heavenly Father. 

 

Each day you’ll read a short Bible passage and discover some awesome truths. Then you’ll be dared to live it out with exciting challenges that can change your life. And fun quizzes keep it all real. It’s your time to shine as a girl who knows what it means to live a fierce and fearless life of faith.

 

So,will you take the dare?

About the Author

Ann-Margret Hovsepian authored The One Year Designer Genes Devo and served as senior editor and lead author for Blossom. She is a Canadian author and speaker who has written over two hundred articles and regularly speaks at writers’ conferences, mission conferences, and women’s events. She is actively involved on the board of Canadian Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: David C. Cook (October 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1434702081
• ISBN-13: 978-1434702081
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Children's Books > Religions > Christianity > Prayer
  • #63 in Books > Children's Books > Religions > Christianity > Devotional

More About the Author

Ann-Margret Hovsepian is a professional freelance writer and editor in Montreal, Quebec, where she was born in 1972. She has more than two hundred published articles in a wide variety of Canadian and U.S. print periodicals. Her devotional for tween girls, The One Year Designer Genes Devo, was published by Tyndale in 2007, and she was the lead author and senior editor of Blossom, a tween BibleZine (Nelson, 2006). Ann-Margret is currently working on two more tween girls' devotionals for David C. Cook: the first, Truth & Dare, will be released in October 2011 and the second one in the fall of 2013. She is involved in many different areas of church ministry and serves on the board of Canadian Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec.

Visit her at www.annhovsepian.com. You can also check out the Facebook pages for her books here: https://www.facebook.com/truth.dare.devotions and https://www.facebook.com/designergenesdevo.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sounds cool, Looks cool, IS COOL!, October 21, 2011

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momofmany (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Truth and Dare: One Year of Dynamic Devotions for Girls (Paperback)

I been reading your new devo - it not only looks cool - it IS cool! I love how each devotional isn't long and laborious... but just a little sound byte of info to think on for the day with succinct parallels to help the reader relate! Nicely done, I can't wait to share it with my 12 yr old twins and their 12 year old step-sister! They will definitely be intrigued by the edgy style/illustrations and layout, it's just the thing for their tweenage sensibilities. Even as an adult I can relate to the concepts that you are introducing for the tween age range. Also, I think that I especially appreciate the brevity, because that is about all I can manage before one of the kiddos needs my attention! LOL I was just going to preview it before passing it along, but I may just cruise through the whole thing first, it is just that good!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth & Dare, October 19, 2011

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Edna Tollison "Mama T" (Laurens, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Truth and Dare: One Year of Dynamic Devotions for Girls (Paperback)

I received this book and when I opened it, I want to use it myself, even if it is for a young girl. Each page is a question page where it gives the Bible reference so that the Bible can be used to find answers then there is a place where it can be written. To be it is a Bible diary for everyday use. I think the young girl will love this and it will get them to read the Bible each day. If they get into reading it every day while they are young then it will be cared throughout their lives.

The front of the book is so colorful and looks just like a teen, then the pages are in black and white, very nice. I just don't know how to say enought about this book. I have a teen age granddaughter and I know she will enjoy this book "if I don't use it myself".

Thanks so much to B and B Media Group for sending me this book for my review.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great devotional option for Tween Girls, January 10, 2012

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Cara Putman (Lafayette, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Truth and Dare: One Year of Dynamic Devotions for Girls (Paperback)

My daughter hungers for a deeper relationship with God, and this book has provided a mechanism for her to seek Him--on her own. And she loves the devotions.

This book has a great lay-out. At the beginning of each day's devotion, there is one verse for the girls to read. Then there's a short story or illustration to go with it. That's followed by a Dare: a way to apply the Truth to their thoughts that day and then a triple-dog dare that helps girls bring what they've learned down to their everyday lives. At the end of the page there's a short journaling session. The book reads like they're sitting down with a big sister or older friend, and gleaning from her faith and experience. My daughter (11) is doing this solely on her own and because she wants to. I love that!