Best Family Ever
Written by Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell
Narrated by Rebekkah Ross and Tara Sands
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, Indiana, and the Baxters need to leave the only home and friends they’ve ever known, no one is happy. Saying goodbye is hard but the family still has what’s most important—their faith and their love for each other.
The first book in the Baxter Family Children series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell tell the story of what it was like to grow up in the Baxter family, the best family ever.
Karen Kingsbury
Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development as major motion pictures. Her Baxter Family books have been developed into a TV series now available everywhere. Karen is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001 she and her husband, Don, adopted three boys from Haiti, doubling their family in a matter of months. Today the couple has joined the ranks of empty nesters, living in Tennessee near four of their adult children.
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Reviews for Best Family Ever
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I greatly enjoyed this book and the others in the series that I have read so far I especially enjoyed Ashley as her character is relatable, especially as an artist myself
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I've never read a Karen Kingsbury adult book, but I have seen her extensive number of novels in the inspirational genre.I believe that this juvenile series, Baxter Family Children, showed up on my recommendations radar because I've read and loved other large family juvenile series such as the All-of-a-Kind Family, the Vanderbeekers, and the Penderwicks series.As the introduction to Best Family Ever states, this is a prequel to the author's adult fiction series about the Baxter family when the children are adults. Not having read those, maybe that's why I wasn't as invested in this prequel as readers of the adult fiction series might be.The story had some moral lessons; there is a lot of internal dialog with prayer mentioned as the family is strongly Christian. The story concerns the whole family, mom, dad and their 5 children, with the focus on the middle child, Ashley. I found Ashley to be a true drama queen and I wonder how she is portrayed as an adult.I didn't get the true "feel good" vibes I got with the other juvenile series mentioned above. There seem to be quite a few family misunderstanding around Ashley which the parents let play out with the intent of lesson learning. I just felt a bit of a sad vibe with this one. I might read #2 in this series, just to see if focus on other siblings is more interesting to me.