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Category: Young Adult

Top 10 Teen Reads

January 15, 2021 Jill Willis

It’s the time of year when libraries tally their top ten check-outs of 2020. I thought it might be interesting…

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Posted in: Writing, Young Adult Filed under: #acfwcommunity, #americanroyals, #amreading, #cjredwine, #concreterose, #goodreads, #thehateugive, #themarkofathena, #top10teenreads

A Real Bird-Brain

March 27, 2019 Jill Willis

Last Spring, a blue bird took one look at the inside of our house and decided he wanted in. The…

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Posted in: Christianity, Pets, Young Adult Filed under: #birdbrain, #bluebird, #comfortzone, #YALit, YA

National Girl Scout Day

March 12, 2019 Jill Willis

The Girl Scout Promise On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country, to help other people…

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Posted in: Volunteerism, Young Adult Filed under: #GirlPower, #GirlScoutCookies, #GirlScoutDay, #GirlScouts, #NationalGirlScoutDay, YA

Lenten Sacrifice

March 6, 2019 Jill Willis

Today is Ash Wednesday, the day millions of Christian believers around the world confront their own mortality and confess their…

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Posted in: Holidays, Young Adult Filed under: #AshWednesday, #Lent, #LentenSacrifice, #YALit, YA

The Haunted Heinz Mansion

October 27, 2018 Jill Willis

A spooky true story for the Halloween season: I saw a ghost when I was fifteen years old. Or, maybe…

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Posted in: Writing, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction Filed under: #callenwolde, #ghoststory, #Halloween, #hauntedhouse, #heinzmansion, #lullwaterestate, #YALit, #YoungAdult, Young Adult Fiction

The Mindset List

November 16, 2017 Jill Willis

Beliot College, located in Wisconsin, crawls into the minds of its freshmen each fall semester and comes up with a…

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Posted in: Young Adult Filed under: #BeliotCollege, #Millennials, #MindsetList, #YoungAdult, #Zappos

There were hints

November 9, 2017 Jill Willis

During worship service on Sunday, November 5, a gunman opened fire inside and out of the First Baptist Church in…

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Posted in: Christianity, Young Adult Filed under: #DomesticTerrorism, #SanAntonio, #SutherlandSprings

Terrible, horrible bad news

November 1, 2017 Jill Willis

Imagine the worst thing that could happen. Then, multiply it by three. My 15-year-old friend ran away from home with…

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Posted in: Young Adult Filed under: #BadNews, #prayer, #Runaway

Gunning for the light

October 26, 2017 Jill Willis

Our neighbor noticed a small bump in his driveway. Over the course of a few weeks, it grew larger and…

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Posted in: Young Adult Filed under: #ChaseAwayTheDarkness, #LiveInLight, #Mushroom, #ShineYourLight

The last show in Georgia

March 6, 2017 Jill Willis

I was honored to attend the last Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Georgia. We watched it ringside…

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Posted in: Young Adult Filed under: #CottonCandy, #Elephants, #FinalPerformance, #GreatestShowOnEarth, #RinglingBros

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