" I constantly shop at goodwill and used-book stores for books for my son, who is currently 6.5, so sometimes I go ahead and buy books that look good for later and then pre-read them. I like Cynthia Rylant, who is eye-poppingly prolific and this is a good story. A boy who is ripe for idolizing someone falls for an itinerant preacher who wanders into his small town. Ultimately, the preacher lets him down and he realizes that his family and friends mean more to him than some stranger no matter how charismatic that stranger is. I'm not sure this would be a high-priority read for my son, given how many books there are out there, but it was pretty good. "
— Shannon, 1/15/2014