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Synopsis
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
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Is The Prophet of Yonwood appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
An 11-year-old girl witnesses how fear and apocalyptic visions can lead a community to make questionable moral choices. Explores themes of religious extremism and mass hysteria in an age-appropriate way that encourages critical thinking.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include manipulation, religious extremism, and mass hysteria.
Who'll love this
A girl must figure out who's really good and who's bad when her town starts following a woman with scary visions about the end of the world.