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   Jason Stiff (jasonstiff@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 22:12:49 JST Jason Stiff

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   As advertised, here is my 1981 copy of A Wrinkle In Time. 📖

   Also pictured, A Wrinkle In Time, on my Kindle. 📖📱🙂

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     Mother Bones (_l1vy_@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 22:12:50 JST Mother Bones

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     @JasonStiff @ScribblersEmporium @kaleb I have the trilogy on Kindle 😂

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     Jason Stiff (jasonstiff@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 22:12:51 JST Jason Stiff

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     @ScribblersEmporium @_L1vY_ @kaleb I still have my childhood copy of A Wrinkle In Time in my apartment right now.

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     Wrinkle in Time 👍👍👍

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     Mother Bones (_l1vy_@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 22:13:01 JST Mother Bones

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     @ScribblersEmporium @kaleb Okay, if we're going that route, then: George MacDonald's Phantastes/Lilith (I read them a lot as a kid, weird but interesting), Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place/I Stand at the Door and Knock, also Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time trilogy. I also read Pilgrim's Progress a lot but can't imagine it appealing to a kid who is not locked into a limited churchy life.
     (My teen has not read any of these but he is having a very different upbringing than I did.)

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     CS Lewis - Narnia, or his space trilogy starting with Out of the Silent Planet.

     Mary Stewart - The Crystal Cave, the Hollow Hills, etc

     John Wyndham - The Chrysalids and The Day of the Triffids and others.

     These are not new and may not appeal to modern teen, but the stories are classics, and their morals are solid.

     The family overseers will recognize them, but the books are not preachy.

     For something more modern, try Connie Willis' Doomsday Book.

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     Kaleb 🚫 (kaleb@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 22:13:03 JST Kaleb 🚫

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     I am not Christian, but I don’t mind giving him “Christian” books as long as the message doesn’t focus on human guilt/sin, the worthlessness of humanity without a saviour, or racial/gender/orientation/etc. intolerance.

     It’s just that everything they are trying to free him focuses on the “traditional Christian” concept of what it means to grow into being a man. It’s all rubbish I can’t tolerate.

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     Kaleb 🚫 (kaleb@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 22:13:04 JST Kaleb 🚫

     Parents of teens, I need a book recommendation!

     This is to appease some well-meaning but overtly Christian and out-of-touch family members. Something for a 12yo who reads well above his age, along the lines of inspiration/motivation for teens to be good humans and members of society

     Rather than have them pushing propaganda on my son I’d like to find a worthwhile read they will feel addresses the insufficient Christian influence in his life

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