New Releases by Kristi Holl

Kristi Holl, renown writing instructor and author of 24 books and over 180 stories and articles, collected the 40 most motivational and helpful writer''s aid essays from among all those she wrote for her students and followers.

This ninety-day devotional will "totally" help teen girls connect with God, as well as learn His will for their lives.

Alex is unhappy living with her mother''s parents in Indiana while her mother and alcoholic father remain in Texas, and her life becomes more complicated when she uses her computer to act on her suspicions about her grandparents'' new neighbor, who Alex is certain is a criminal.

This short, 90-day devotional for girls is written in an upbeat, lively, funny, and tween-friendly way, incorporating the graphic, fast-moving feel of a teen magazine. Illustrations.

The TodaysGirls plan a Mother''s Day singing performance, but Alex Diaz doesn''t realize she can''t carry a tune in a clear vinyl backpack. As events spiral to prevent Alex from discovering the truth about her voice, misunderstandings lead her to believe her friends and her mom can''t stand her. It takes the patient love of her Christian friends for Alex to realize that only through understanding can forgiveness come.

Becki tries to adjust to her divorced father''s new marriage to a woman who runs a day care center in their home.

Alex Burton, who feels invisible in her large family, enters a mural contest at the public library in the hopes the her family will realize her artistic talent and give her some attention

When her grandmother comes to stay for a month and volunteers at her school library, twelve-year-old Julie has to deal with sharing her room and being embarrassed by her grandmother''s somewhat flamboyant presence at school.

Sixth grader Julie dislikes the sacrifices she has to make to ease her family''s serious financial problems, which may cause them to lose their farm, but her faith in God helps her through the situation.

When twelve-year-old Julie McGregor''s Laurel school merges with the school in nearby Elmwood, and the kids from the schools don''t get along, she has trouble keeping her friend Monica while trying to make new friends from Elmwood.

With her mom arrested as a thief and the police not looking any further for the real criminal, seventh-grader Tracy searches for the wily, dangerous thief alone.

Camping in a park that may be haunted by the ghost of a dead girl, thirteen-year-old Laurie vows to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Anxious to prove his competence as a guide to his ranger father, fifteen-year-old Brad is appalled when, after being left in charge of a tour of Indian burial mounds, a five-year-old boy disappears, the victim of an apparent kidnapping.

When serious financial difficulties endanger the future of the Mississippi steamboat tourist attraction run by her family and friends, thirteen-year-old Nikki singlehandedly pursues various schemes to make money, discovering the hard way that there is more to life than worrying.

June finds sharing a house with her mother and her foster grandfather requires a difficult adjustment to his forgetfulness and his crabby remarks to her junior high school friends, but she also loves him as a family member.

Life may not be fair, but Tara, seeking justice, finds how to make the best of things.

With the help of her grandmother, good-natured, dependable Jean finally realizes that only she can prevent other people from taking advantage of her.

To earn money for camp, Shelly opens a portable garage sale and becomes so successful that to find time for the rest of her life, she has to learn to put first things first.

June''s foster grandparent turns out to be a crabby old man who doesn''t like children in general and June in particular.

An unknown blackmailer threatens Kate and her school friends until she decides to face danger head on.