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It’s that time of that year again when girls groups are starting in home settings and Catholic parishes. We’ve received many exciting inquires about the new release of  All Things Girl: Friends, Fashion and Faith  and wanted to share these two excerpts as an example of what you will find in the book for Catholic tween girls and the  accompanying journal .  The Table of Contents is also offered here. And if I can be of any help, please just let me know!  Cheryl@BezalelBooks.com Having a Soul Gives You Inherent Dignity… Joan  lives in a neighborhood where the houses are huge and everyone has a pool. Katie lives in a neighborhood where some of the houses have broken windows and lots of kids share bedrooms. Which person has more dignity? Tamar  is from the Middle East and has olive skin, she speaks with a thick accent. Mary has long, beautiful brunette hair and perfect skin. Betty is chubby and has greasy hair. Gertrude is skinny a...

School's out and it is time for sun and fun!  We're excited at Bezalel Books to offer  All Things Girl: Truth for Teen s--one of our most popular teen books--at an amazing price of .99 on Kindle to kick start summer for our precious Catholic teens! As one Amazon reviewer wrote: All Things Girl is jam-packed with Catholic girl awesomeness and we think you will agree! Contributors include best-selling author  Peggy Bowe s and the effervescent Heather Renshaw.   So for this week only we are offering "Catholic girl awesomeness" for the special Catholic teen in your life!

When All Things Girl first came on the scene there were a lot of mixed reviews. People said things like "it is terrible; it seems homemade" to "the best book EVER for young Catholic girls." Of course, once those books went out of production (there are new ones now in print), everyone clamored for them. I suppose that's how it always goes, right? We don't know what we have until it is gone. We are now excited to say that the newest All Things Girl book is out! In the 2014 release of Truth for Teens you are going to find the same great open and honest talk that girls love (and moms and grandmas are so appreciative of) but with fresh, new, relevant voices! Peggy Bowes (best-selling author of The Rosary Workout and popular speaker) writes about health and fitness. Heather Renshaw, mother of 5 youngsters, somehow found the time to write about vocations in general and motherhood in particular. Kayla Brandon, a journalism major with time in at Fox and othe...

I vividly recall the first really negative review I received on a book. It was for a particular title in the All Things Girl series and the young person who wrote it was fairly scathing in what she said. She identified herself as one of three sisters who ranged in age from 10 to 15. She went on to post her review on all the books. I will freely admit that her words brought tears to my eyes. Two months later, BAM! Another terrible review. I was reeling from it all. To make matters worse, scores of people were saying how helpful the two terrible reviews were. No one was coming to my defense. Words can’t explain how alone I felt—and utterly defeated in my attempt at serving God’s precious daughters. And confused…I had prayed each and every time that I had worked on the books. Throughout long days and nights my prayers stormed heaven; I prayed to the Father that every young girl who read the books would be blessed by them; that these books would be instruments of God’s love for...