Grace Under Pressure

Blog On! #5

by Dandi Daley Mackall

Gracie's always been good at handling everything herself, but pressures at school and personal disappointments prove almost more than she can bear in this fifth book in the Blog On series. Will she learn to share her burdens with God and with her friends before she cracks?

Genres: Young Adult

128 pages, Paperback

Published March 27, 2007

About the author

A professional writer for over 20 years, Dandi Daley Mackall has written dozens of articles for popular magazines and published around 500 books for children and adults alike, with sales of over 4 million.

A frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, she lives in rural Ohio with her husband, three children, horses, dogs, & cats. Awards include the Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery, the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature; Distinguished Alumni Award from Mizzou; ALA Best Book; Christian Children's Book of the Year, Amelia Bloom, Mom's Choice Awards. Her YA novel, My Boyfriends' Dogs, is now a Hallmark movie.

Reviews

[Bookworm]

Page 17: “Mick was nodding, like she understood. "T've heard a lot of women hate their birthdays.”
Huh?

Page 57: “She pegged him for about fifty, weighing close to 300 pounds. Not your average banana eater.”
Huh?

The nickname “Bouncy Perky Girl”

The plot is: she tricks a guy to share his deepest darkest secret — he does NOT actually want to play football, wishes he could quit, feels like his parents don’t really love him just love living vicariously through his football, thinks his parents would get divorced if he quit football — then writes it into the newspaper as her front page story.
And is shocked when he gets upset about that.
No joke, Sherlock!