中村和雄、発売：いのちのことば社
幼い時に両親が離婚し、厳しい環境に置かれた主人公フランシスは、暗い家庭から逃れるために、非行少年のグループに接近していく。そんな彼を救ったのは、農場の温かい家族の分け隔てない愛によるものだった。
著者・訳者など：パトリシア・セントジョン
訳：中村和雄
ISBN：978-4-264-03478-0
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Where the River Begins
(Kawa no Minamoto)
Patricia St. John
What did you hear, you little twerp? Tyke asked, holding Francis's wrists and looking at him with narrowed eyes. "I heard about the phone booth, and Tyke, let me join your gang! If you want to smash phone booths, I could help you. I can run fast. I'm fastest under eleven in the school. I could watch out and warn you, and you could smash anything you wanted." A confused and misguided youngster stays with a Christian family while his mother is institutionalized. The family helps him discover the source of the nearby river and the source of the Christian life. Review: “A wonderful example of how the love of God lived out in the lives of people who love Him will draw others to want to know and love Him as well. Clearly portrays the emptiness of trying to find satisfaction in hurting and destroying, while showing at the same time what joy and fulfillment is found by loving and serving others. Children from breaking or broken homes will be able to relate to the pain and frustration Francis experiences and hopefully to find as he does where the river of God's love begins.” Distributed by WLPM. B6* size, 192 pp. ISBN 978-4-264-03478\1,300+
