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Voice From The Ladder
Summary
Religious concepts have a funny way of becoming physical and real at Camp St. Innocent, an Orthodox Christian summer camp. The impossible obstacle course is called the Hillside of Divine Ascent and each obstacle is named after a spiritual temptation. When an autistic camper cracks the code of how to get past them, the excitement of figuring it out first is too much for him. The ensuing outburst means he has to be separated from the group, but his counselor, Laura, is determined to calm him down, keep him in camp, and interpret the secret he’s trying to tell.
Later, Laura’s co-counselor, Kim is lost in the mountains with only marshmallows to eat but doesn’t want to call for help or admit the mistakes that led her there. Another co-counselor, Silouan, goes on a service trip to Ukraine and must re-learn the meaning of humility to keep his church construction project alive.
Voice From the Ladder, a young adult novel by Eric Thomas Ruthford, is the third in the Camp St. Innocent series and is full of humor and friendship as four Orthodox teenagers put their faith to work.
A Voice is Born
Summary
Helene and her mother, Katherine, return to Camp St. Innocent as volunteers. Helene’s cabin of elementary schoolers have her stretched to the limit when Katherine, who is expecting her second child, starts behaving strangely. Helene has to figure out how to get her mother help. This year, the job of daughter and sister is going to be harder than anything Helene’s been through before.
A Voice is Born is the second in the young-adult Christian coming-of-age series of Camp St. Innocent novels, and the sequel to Voice in the Storm. These novels, focusing on a group of Orthodox Christian teenagers, are full of hope, humor, and faith.
Voice in the Storm
Summary
Helene is ready for a perfect summer with her friends at church camp when a nearby forest fire threatens to force an evacuation. Camp is her only time to see her friends from before her family’s move in the middle of seventh grade, friends she knew before the bullies and the cliques of her new school made her go from shy to terrified. Helene puts her science skills to work to think of a way to escape the smoke. With the help of a meteorologist who’s come to study the fire, she creates a plan, but first she must find her voice to convince the camp director that it could work.
From new author Eric Thomas Ruthford, Voice in the Storm is a novel in parts that tells the story of four Orthodox Christian campers helping their friends, growing in faith, making ketchup bottles explode, and avoiding the director’s quirky punishments for breaking the camp’s no-kissing rule.
