Left Behind: The Kids Boxed Set #2 (Books 7-12)

Overview

In one unbelievable moment, millions of people around the world are missing. For those left behind, discovering the cause of their disappearance will only be understood by a few. Life on earth will never be the same as each title brings disasters, political intrigue, and humanity a step closer to Armageddon!
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Overview

In one unbelievable moment, millions of people around the world are missing. For those left behind, discovering the cause of their disappearance will only be understood by a few. Life on earth will never be the same as each title brings disasters, political intrigue, and humanity a step closer to Armageddon!
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Based on Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's bestselling Left Behind series, Left Behind: The Kids presents the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four young friends. As the world falls apart around them, Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan band together to find faith and fight the evil forces that threaten their lives. This special gift edition includes the first six books in the series: The Vanishings, Second Chance, Through the Flames, Facing the Future, Nicolae High, and The Underground.
Time
Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins...are doing for Christian fiction what John Grisham did for courtroom thrillers.
Publishers Weekly
This is the most successful Christian-fiction series ever.
New York Times
Combines Tom Clancy like suspense with touches of romance, high-tech flash and Biblical references.
Entertainment Weekly
Christian thriller. Prophecy-based fiction. Juiced-up morality tale. Call it what you like, the Left Behind series-six books thus far- now has a label its creators could never have predicted: blockbuster success.
Dallas Morning News
It's not your mama's Christian fiction anymore.
Wille
This epic, frenzied cultural anomaly will surely become a collector's item.
Paper Magazine
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780842357470
  • Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/1/2001
  • Series: Left Behind: The Kids Series
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Boxed - Books 7-12
  • Pages: 175
  • Sales rank: 178,363
  • Age range: 10 - 12 Years
  • Product dimensions: 4.22 (w) x 7.08 (h) x 2.72 (d)

Meet the Author

Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
When the Left Behind series became a publishing phenomenon, no one was more surprised than its authors, evangelical preacher Tim LaHaye (left) and fiction writer Jerry B. Jenkins. Audiences gobbled up the duo’s thrilling novels, which combine romance, morality questions, and high-tech gadgetry against the dramatic backdrop of the apocalypse.

Biography

Sometimes, while sitting on airplanes, evangelical preacher Tim LaHaye would ask himself, “What if the Rapture occurred on an airplane?" That germ of an idea grew into the phenomenally successful Left Behind series, which LaHaye coauthors with fiction writer Jerry B. Jenkins. The books combine Biblical prophecy with speculative fiction to produce an action-packed thriller about events between the Rapture, when (according to one Christian tradition) the faithful will ascend to heaven, and the Second Coming.

Before the series began, Jenkins had carved out a career writing other people's autobiographies -- he ghostwrote or co-wrote those of Billy Graham, Orel Herschiser, Hank Aaron, and Nolan Ryan, among others -- as well as writing novels and a few inspirational books on marriage and parenting. Tim LaHaye also wrote books on marriage and faith, served as the pastor for a ministry in California, and co-founded The Pre-Trib Research Center, a Bible scholarship group dedicated to the study of end-times prophecy. LaHaye spent several years searching for a coauthor who could take his vision of the earth's last days -- including that intriguing image of passengers vanishing from an airplane -- and spin it into fiction. Finally, LaHaye and Jenkins were introduced by their mutual literary agent at Alive Communications, and Jenkins began writing the story of airline captain Rayford Steele, whose wife and son vanish along with millions of other true believers. Those "left behind" on Earth have a last chance to choose sides in the ensuing battle between good and evil.

The books became a blockbuster hit. Sales of the Left Behind series soared with each successive volume, and by 2001, ABC News reported, 50 million had been sold. "The formula combines Tom Clancy-like suspense with touches of romance, high-tech flash and Biblical references," The New York Times wrote, explaining how its authors pulled off "an unparalleled achievement for an evangelical novel." LaHaye and Jenkins were stunned by their own success: "I've been writing for 40 years, with 12 million books in print, but I've never seen anything like this," said LaHaye.

The series has spawned a slew of spinoffs: comic books, calendars, a young adults' series, dramatized audio recordings and a movie based on the first book. It has also generated controversy, both within and without the Christian community, for issues ranging from politics (the U.N. figures into the story as a tool of the Antichrist) to Scriptural interpretation (many New Testament scholars reject LaHaye's belief, first popularized by John Nelson Darby in the 1830s, in a seven-year tribulation period following the Rapture).

But LaHaye and Jenkins are convinced that their message is getting through to their readers. They estimate that more than 2,000 people have converted as a result of reading the Left Behind books. "And needless to say, for us that's more important than bestsellers, or money, or anything else," says Jenkins.

Good To Know

Jerry Jenkins is also the writer of a syndicated comic strip, "Gil Thorp," which runs in 60 newspapers nationwide.
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    1. Hometown:
      Jerry B. Jenkins lives in Black Forest, Colorado
    1. Education:
      Tim LaHaye has a B.A., Bob Jones University; and a Doctorate of Ministries, Western Baptist Seminary
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 2, 2004

    An Awesome book

    ¿Left Behind¿ is about the bible prophecy of the `Coming of the Lord¿ that leaves the world in chaos. The book is an idea how it might actually be like for people who did not believe and are `left behind¿ after the disappearances of God¿s loyal subjects he brings to his side. The book is number seven in the series titled ¿Busted.¿ The story starts with Vickie who has been found out by Carpathia High, her high school about her Christian activities. They didn¿t have enough evidence that she was distributing the Underground, a Christian newspaper, but they still convicted her anyway. So they sent her to a detention center where she meets some new friends and then was adopted by the Stein family. This situation is not one a good one and she finally gets help to escape. She is recaptured when she returns to the school she attended. She finds out some news about things she didn¿t think were true. Judd visits Israel with his pastor searching for something. Things happen when they arrive back but soon they are all brought back together. Vickie is sent back to the detention center she once left but knowing she has even more people out there caring for her. To me, all the characters are my favorite. But I will choose only one, Judd is my favorite, because he takes on the responsibility of an adult, even though he is just a teenager All of the other characters respect him, even though they have their problems at times. They think of Judd as a father figure. I recommend this book to all. Whoever is interested in hearing a story of the end of days on earth I think you should buy the series. I plan on reading the book to the end. To tell you the truth I picked this book just because my teacher wanted us to read a book, but when I started reading I immediately got into it. Now I will buy all the books to see what will happen.

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