Norma Elliot's Secret Journal: Spring Fever

Norma Elliot's Secret Journal: Spring Fever  

by Victoria Simcox

It's me again, Norma Elliot. I'm still ten years old and sharper than a tack, as my dad likes to say.

"Spring Fever" is my second book, about what I did last spring—mostly learning life lessons again and talking to God in my secret journal. The title is a great big hint of how I felt for at least part of the season.

I'm still not a perfect angel kid; actually, the more I write in my journal, the more I realize I'm surely not perfect.

Working at my first job, planting a garden, dealing with an annoying drunk slug, as well as annoying people, are some of the things you'll read in this book.

If you liked my first story, "’Tis the Season," then I hope you'll like "Spring Fever." I think, I mean, I hope you'll like it just as much or maybe even more.

Latest Customer Review

A Great Pre-teen Book

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2023

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Having read Norma Elliot's T'is the Season', I could not wait to read the sequel 'Spring Fever'. What began to be a 'Journal to God' as a Christmas gift expanded to a secret diary about Norma's 'mis'-adventures growing up as a ten-year-old. Somehow with every little thing, some kind of disaster occurred that included some learning experience she would share with God. In a typical family, relationships with her siblings, best friend Taylor, and boy-pests in her class, nothing turned out as she had envisioned. Seeing life through the eyes of a ten-year-old provided much reminiscing of my own youth, now looking at it with a sense of humor. Most enjoyable, very funny book that both the young and old will find extremely entertaining.

Content:

Drug Content:

G - There is a neighbor, Mr. Porgy who drinks a beer. Also, beer is used to kill slugs. Norma’s aunt Gail asks for a wine spritzer but is given ginger ale instead.

Violence:

G – No violence

 Language:

G – No bad language

 Adult Content:

G - There is no adult content.

Christian content:

There are elements of Christian faith, moral lessons, and conversations with God in a journal. Also, each journal entry has a scripture reflected on by Norma.

About the Author:

Victoria was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, to an Austrian immigrant mother and a Dutch immigrant father. She now calls Western Washington home. Besides her writing career, Victoria taught elementary-school art for several years. Her past times are writing, reading, painting watercolors. She likes to read theological as well as some fantasy genres. Two authors she is fond of are R.C. Sproul and C.S. Lewis.

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