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Seeing Jesus
Winner of three 2016 Human Relations Indie Book
Young Adult Pre-Teen/Teen Human Relations
Young Adult Family Human Relations
Young Adult Self-Esteem
An unlikely friendship blossoms into a community…
Eighth grader Sara Love’s parents transplanted her from Austin to the tiny town of Pollen, Texas, where she stands out like a blackhead on a bright red nose. Her father expects her to get along with the Queen Bee Jana Payne, the mayor’s daughter, and the rest of her hive because his business depends on the mayor’s approval. The hive wants nothing to do with Sara, nor does class clown Delbert Thrash, or any of the other kids for that matter.
Sara makes friends with Mr. Fisher, a homeless man, who no one else can see. Mr. Fisher tells Sara wonderful stories, stories that not only entertain her but help her discover resources within herself that allow her to cope with her loneliness and frustration.
Her parents aren’t happy to learn about Mr. Fisher, however, and just when Sara is cast to narrate the Christmas play her classmates learn about Sara’s imaginary friend, too. Sara discovers every dark cloud has even darker clouds pushing past, only when she turns to Mr. Fisher for help, he vanishes.
Can Sarah use Mr. Fisher’s lessons to rise to the occasion, gain her family and friends’ acceptance, not to mention save her father’s job and the Christmas play?
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Author Phillip T. Stephens will release Seeing Jesus in two versions. This, the Young Adult version, and the unabridged version for adult readers. In addition to a humorous, coming of age story, suitable for Christmas reading, Seeing Jesus introduces young readers to questions of spirituality and philosophy they might not otherwise find the opportinity to explore. Without being doctrinaire, Seeing Jesus provides readers a chance to address questions they will confront in the news, their classes and professional lives.
Stephens, a professional educator and writer who developed a number of innovative classroom programs for exceptional and at-risk youth, drew on his own experiences as a minister's son being frequently moved to new schools as well as those of his students to write Seeing Jesus.
Young Adult Pre-Teen/Teen Human Relations
Young Adult Family Human Relations
Young Adult Self-Esteem
An unlikely friendship blossoms into a community…
Eighth grader Sara Love’s parents transplanted her from Austin to the tiny town of Pollen, Texas, where she stands out like a blackhead on a bright red nose. Her father expects her to get along with the Queen Bee Jana Payne, the mayor’s daughter, and the rest of her hive because his business depends on the mayor’s approval. The hive wants nothing to do with Sara, nor does class clown Delbert Thrash, or any of the other kids for that matter.
Sara makes friends with Mr. Fisher, a homeless man, who no one else can see. Mr. Fisher tells Sara wonderful stories, stories that not only entertain her but help her discover resources within herself that allow her to cope with her loneliness and frustration.
Her parents aren’t happy to learn about Mr. Fisher, however, and just when Sara is cast to narrate the Christmas play her classmates learn about Sara’s imaginary friend, too. Sara discovers every dark cloud has even darker clouds pushing past, only when she turns to Mr. Fisher for help, he vanishes.
Can Sarah use Mr. Fisher’s lessons to rise to the occasion, gain her family and friends’ acceptance, not to mention save her father’s job and the Christmas play?
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Author Phillip T. Stephens will release Seeing Jesus in two versions. This, the Young Adult version, and the unabridged version for adult readers. In addition to a humorous, coming of age story, suitable for Christmas reading, Seeing Jesus introduces young readers to questions of spirituality and philosophy they might not otherwise find the opportinity to explore. Without being doctrinaire, Seeing Jesus provides readers a chance to address questions they will confront in the news, their classes and professional lives.
Stephens, a professional educator and writer who developed a number of innovative classroom programs for exceptional and at-risk youth, drew on his own experiences as a minister's son being frequently moved to new schools as well as those of his students to write Seeing Jesus.
274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2015
About the author
Phillip T. Stephens
11 books31 followersPhillip T. Stephens is a mythological character who evolved from a spin-off cult of the Church of the Subgenius called Our Lady of the Lady of the Lord of the Subtransgender in the late 1970s. In Subtransgender mythology Stephens was Bob Dobbs sidekick who dreamed of surpassing Dodds as the universe’s top salesman. In order to do so, he sold the Xists on plans to convert the earth to transgender only condos, which would, in essence, put a kibosh on the entire Subgenius sales pitch. Needless to say this subjected Stephens to the wrath of Bob who short sold all of Stephens’ shares in America Online, causing the recession of 2000 and reducing Stephens into a clone of Pewee Herman.
Many followers believe Stephens can now be seen as Jim Parsons on the Big Bang Theory with no awareness of who he truly is, but they are, of course, completely misguided.
Needless to say, the Church of the Subgenius in no way acknowledges Our Lady of the Lady of the Lord of the Subtransgender.
His wife Carol patiently waits for him to start behaving like a normal human being and devotes most of her time to patient babysitting and Austin Siamese Rescue.
Many followers believe Stephens can now be seen as Jim Parsons on the Big Bang Theory with no awareness of who he truly is, but they are, of course, completely misguided.
Needless to say, the Church of the Subgenius in no way acknowledges Our Lady of the Lady of the Lord of the Subtransgender.
His wife Carol patiently waits for him to start behaving like a normal human being and devotes most of her time to patient babysitting and Austin Siamese Rescue.
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December 4, 2015
This is an important book that provides positive insights for both for adults and children who have to deal with bullying.
The most poignant and suspenseful part of Sara’s story is how isolated she is when bullies attack. Sara is 13, smart and resourceful. She only wants to fit in, and it’s painful to see her constantly attacked by the highest ranking girls and insulted by boys at school. As the new kid in a small Texas town, her frustration increases when teachers, administrators and Sara’s own parents believe the bullies' false accusations, blame Sara as a troublemaker.
Things begin to change when Sara sees that an old man has left his wallet on the park bench where he was sitting and picks it up to return to him. Unfortunately this gives the bullies a golden opportunity to accuse Sara of stealing the old man’s wallet. Every adult Sara encounters believes this, even after Sara manages to return the wallet. The old man, who is called Mr. Fisher, turns out to be a most unusual person. For one thing, she finds she can confide her problems to him and Mr. Fisher believes her. But the old man seems to be invisible to everyone else and Sara has no way of contacting him when she most needs his advice.
Sara finds unexpected solutions to her problems in a way that turns the situation around completely for a satisfying ending.
Seeing Jesus is full of funny touches, such as the way that the Texas town of Pollen is courting the largest allergy manufacturing company in the South to relocate there.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and I found it to be a poignant, suspenseful and ultimately uplifting tale.
The most poignant and suspenseful part of Sara’s story is how isolated she is when bullies attack. Sara is 13, smart and resourceful. She only wants to fit in, and it’s painful to see her constantly attacked by the highest ranking girls and insulted by boys at school. As the new kid in a small Texas town, her frustration increases when teachers, administrators and Sara’s own parents believe the bullies' false accusations, blame Sara as a troublemaker.
Things begin to change when Sara sees that an old man has left his wallet on the park bench where he was sitting and picks it up to return to him. Unfortunately this gives the bullies a golden opportunity to accuse Sara of stealing the old man’s wallet. Every adult Sara encounters believes this, even after Sara manages to return the wallet. The old man, who is called Mr. Fisher, turns out to be a most unusual person. For one thing, she finds she can confide her problems to him and Mr. Fisher believes her. But the old man seems to be invisible to everyone else and Sara has no way of contacting him when she most needs his advice.
Sara finds unexpected solutions to her problems in a way that turns the situation around completely for a satisfying ending.
Seeing Jesus is full of funny touches, such as the way that the Texas town of Pollen is courting the largest allergy manufacturing company in the South to relocate there.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and I found it to be a poignant, suspenseful and ultimately uplifting tale.
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