Lucy

Author:  Nancy Rue  (christian author)

Rating:   4

Summary:  Lucy is about a tomboy, who has no interest in boys, clothes, and loves to play soccer.  Lucy's mom is dead, and her dad has hired a housekeeper/nanny to be a sort of mother figure for Lucy.  In Lucy Doesn't Wear Pink and Lucy Out of Bounds, the housekeeper teaches her a couple different bible stories about women, and from the stories shows her what it means to be a girl.  By the end, Lucy is still the girl who loves soccer, and hates romance and clothes, but she has learned that there's more to being a girl than just that.

           Girl drama:  Even though Lucy hates girl problems and drama, that doesn't mean there isn't any in the books.  She is surrounded by girls who love drama, and with hormones, it gets out of hand sometimes.  There are two girls who Lucy thinks doesn't like her, and she doesn't like them back.  There's another girl who has a crush on Lucy's friend, Joe, and she causes some drama there.

           Morals:  Lucy is taught what it means to be a girl in these two books, from the stories of Lea and Rachel, and Ruth.  I'm a tomboy, and Lucy's story and view was very close to mine, so this was an interesting read for me.  If you have a girl who is a tomboy, I highly recommend this.

Girls, 9-12 years old, contemporary