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Feb 2007 Issue
First-time fiction writer Kay Lynn Mangum releases her inaugural novel, The Secret Journal of Brett Colton. From its beginnings as a short story she wrote in high school, Mangum has expanded The Secret Journal of Brett Colton into “an intriguiing heart-warming story, [that is] masterfully told,” according to award-winning author Jack Weyland. Sure to win hearts anad nurture faith, parents will feel good about giving The Secret Journal of Brett Colton to their teenagers or young adults.
The story revolves around 16-year-old Kathy Colton, who can’t stand her brother Brett. Her family talks as if he were perfect! All Kathy knows for sure is that Brett is dead. He died of leukemia when he was seventeen and she was only two. But when Kathy turns sixteen, she discovers her brother’s hidden journal—a journal written especially for her—and learns about the brother she never knew. At the same time, Kathy is mortified by an assignment to tutor the popular high school quarterback Jason West, a football jock who, even worse, is a Mormon.
Author Kay Lynn Mangum brilliantly weaves dual stories of a dying brother and a coming-of-age sister who learn the importance of loving family and nurturing faith.
The Secret Journal of Brett Colton is available at Deseret Book, deseretbook.com, or wherever LDS books are sold.
