Sugar Rush
Girls Aglow Book One
Junior year had been a bust. Holly had a new chronic illness, her parents split, and her mom moved her to a new state. Since she home schools, she figures she’ll stay at home senior year and come out again for college.
Nope. Mom insists she try the local youth group. She is welcomed by one Jason Birch, a handsome baseball player who asks too many questions and disrupts her plans not to speak to the world until graduation. Somehow she ends up at all kinds of crazy youth events, and at every one Jason is there, being charming, being secretive, being human. Seems popularity and a good throwing arm don’t really fix a broken life.
Together they struggle with their own issues as well as those of the other. Will Holly figure out this new life, facing death on a daily basis? Will Jason’s family issues ruin his chances for the future he’s dreamed of? God has the answers, but this time he’s making them work for it, and it might just take every second of senior year to get them ready for their future.
Jill's Notes
- Like Holly, I am a type one diabetic, so it was easy to get the details of her medical condition right.
- Also like Holly, I panic in mazes. While visiting a sister stationed in Hawaii, I went to the Dole Pineapple Maze. I was certain I would die there, lost forever.
- Only the first two books of this series take place in high school. The rest of the books deal with college or college-age girls and guys.
- When someone asks me if I write anything their young teen daughters can read, I point to these, even over the younger YA series. There’s a sweetness to these books I’ve always liked. That might be why my oldest readers like them, too.