Book Recommendations
from Colene Lewis
- Money
- What Ever Happened to Penny Candy, Richard Maybury. Clear and interesting book about economics including, the origin of money, investment cycles, business cycles, recessions, inflation, the demand for money. Great for even younger kids! My dad with a Masters in International Finance thought it was brilliant!
- Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money, Dave Ramsey. From the basics of working, spending, saving and giving, to the more complex issues of avoiding debt for life and battling discontentment, this book gives you practical help to teach your children about money and debt.
- Work
- The Vanishing American Adult, Ben Sasse. 2017 Best Seller explaining the problem, and offering steps to nudge our kids forward into adulthood. Great resource for parents and possibly older teens.
- Life Skills
- 401 Ways to Get Your Kids to Work at Home, Bonnie Runyan McCullough. Techniques, tips, tricks, and strategies on how to your kids to become self-reliant, responsible adults. Systematic plan with age appropriate system to make your kids know all the basic living skills by the time they leave home at age 18.
- Decision Making
- Just Do Something, Kevin DeYoung. Seek first the Kingdom of God and quit floundering. Punchy book about making decisions by listening the clear voice in the Scriptures.
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence. How to know God in all His majesty and feeling hi8s loving presence throughout each day.
- The Faith
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis. The classic book laying out the central issues of Christianity. A MUST READ!
- The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel. A journalist’s investigation of the Evidence for Jesus Christ. Apologetics at its best.
- Know What You Believe, Paul Little. Ten bottom-line, non-negotiables truths of Christianity.
- Know Why You Believe, Paul Little. Answers to the 12 common intellectual challenges to the faith. Classic answer book on the Christian faith.
- How to be your own Selfish Pig, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. Take the time to think about what you believe and why. This book helped me as my “thinker” considered if she personally believed in Christianity or not.
- People Skills
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie. Classic book on people skills.
- Modern Manners: Tools to Take you to the Top, Dorothea Johnson with Liv Tyler. Up-to-date and yet timeless approach to etiquette for young women and young men to equip them to navigate social and business situations.
- Romance
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris. A call to sincere love, real purity and purposeful singleness.
- Date or Soul Mate, Neil Clark Warren. How to become wise in your relationship choices.
- Career Direction
- What Color is your Parachute? Teen Edition, Carol Christen.