For Kids: Abigail Gets Left Out | A Chapter Book About Friendship and Fitting In
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Girls · Chapter Book · Faith
Abigail Gets Left Out
Can’t Dance. CAn’t Sing. Can Count on Jesus!
By Bethany McIlrath (Author), Katie Saunders (Illustrator)
Published by The Good Book Co.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
9-year-old Abigail can’t sing, and she can’t dance. So when her friends start rehearsing a musical performance, Abigail feels very much left out and self-conscious. Isn’t she good at anything? Doesn’t anybody want to be her friend?
Jesus does! When Abigail reads Psalm 139, she realizes that Jesus made her wonderfully, just the way she is, so she doesn’t need to worry about not being good at musical things. And when she encounters John 15, Abigail learns that Jesus loves her perfectly and empowers her to be a loving friend, even when others let her down.
As Abigail sees what a wonderful friend Jesus is, it transforms her other friendships—and it ends up transforming the girls’ musical performance too!
My Thoughts:
As a mama to a little girl, I love finding great books that encourage my daughter while providing moral lessons and helping to deepen her faith! The Abigail series does just that.
In this newest release, 9 year old Abigail feels embarrassed, inadequate and left out when her school friends decide to put on a musical, but she doesn’t sing and she can’t dance so she’s not sure how she fits into the production. Her feelings intensify when she’s teased by a boy in her class, so her mom points her to Scripture. With the help of a Sunday School lesson and family, Abigail discovers what God’s word says about her, about friendship and helping others. Through her own act of kindness, she learns a valuable lesson about fitting in, being a friend and she learns that she’s never truly alone because she loves and knows Jesus.
I find this to be a sweet, gentle story about self worth, friendship and purpose. I loved that Abigail explored the Scripture as a result of her dilemma and prayed about it, too. We all just want to be included sometimes and this book does a great job of covering that topic with from a Christian perspective, pointing little hearts and minds toward Jesus!
The story was fun and entertaining as well as clever. It was easy to read for late elementary readers. Even my 7 year old enjoyed the story and the cute illustrations. We also had a few laughs as we read it together! This is a definite recommendation for the little girl in your life.
