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| Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott | 
| Authors: Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, Steve Rabey, Darrell Scott With Scott Rabey
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 15304
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0785268480
Dewey Decimal Number: 373.1782092
UPC: 020049068489
EAN: 9780785268482
ASIN: 0785268480
Publication Date: April 20, 2000
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 This book will make you examine your own life and relationship with God. March 31, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read Rachel's Tears a few years ago, and couldn't put it down. This book had a huge impact on my life as a believer, and made me question how strong my faith really was. I found my faith to be lacking and after reading, I desired to have the level of faith that Rachel had. As a grown woman of 30 years old, I remembered having that fresh, fired up type faith when I was a teen. I had lost it somehow, and this book helped me to find it again. This was an awesome book about an awesome young woman.
I am looking forward to sharing this with my almost 13 yr old son.
Great book March 19, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book. It will break your heart, but it's worth the read. Make sure you have your supply of kleenex close by!
 It Will Move You Deeply..... January 24, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although we do not wish to relive a terrible tragedy, I belive that sometimes we need to, to really learn from our mistakes.....and Rachel's Tears does just that. It shows us the worst..and very BEST with teenagers today..... This book will move you...no matter what religion you are...no matter where you are from........reading the excerpts from Rachel's journals is really inspiring. I could not put it down. May God Bless you Rachel.
Life Changing January 13, 2006
I did a report on violence in the media, and that is what led me to this book. While researching, I became very interested in the tragedy of Columbine and the stories its victim's had to tell.
Rachel's Tears is an incredible story, her trust in God and her deep relationship with him is portrayed in a beautiful manner. I found myself in tears several times while reading it, because it impacted me in a life changing way. Some people criticize that the book uses so many of Rachel's journal entries to tell the story, but who could better tell the story of her life and death than Rachel herself? The most amazing fact is that she knew of her death years before it happened. Her journals speak of her life being short, and at one point she refers to Columbine as the "Halls of a tragedy".
So impacting was the testimony of Rachel Scott, that in the three short days it took me to read this book I found my faith challenged and renewed. I too am committed to starting a chain reaction of God's grace, and hope that you will also.
Years after her death, Rachel's story is still being used to impact the world
 Good story badly written January 6, 2006
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
The story of this loving 17-year-old Christian girl, Rachel Scott - gunned down in the Columbine High School tragedy of April 1999 - has all the ingredients of a best-seller. Two crazed students go on a shooting rampage at a Colorado school, killing a teacher and 12 students, including Rachel. They injure 24 others, and then commit suicide. Yet this book doesn't rise above mediocre.
Rachel's parents discovered in Rachel's journals, to their surprise, that she had a strong love for Jesus Christ. But they seem to have slapped this book together thinking Rachel's journal entries would be enough to get an interesting story across. It's not.
As I was reading the book it kept raising questions that it didn't answer. My first question was why do the parents have different surnames? Are they divorced? Did the mother decide to keep her birth name? I had to wait until page 54 to find they split up when Rachel was 7 and later divorced. But they don't like to talk about it (presumably because the father is an ex-pastor). On page 10 they mention the names Eric and Dylan. "Who are they?" I wondered. It took another 44 pages before I found out these were the killers. They use euphemisms that disguise what they are talking about (for example "product" instead of "coffin"). On page 115 they say Rachel worked part-time at a Subway sandwich shop, forgetting that they've said this about 50 times in the book already.
I don't mean to sound unkind to parents who are obviously not professional writers and who were dealing with a tragedy I would never want to go through myself. But it does surprise me the publishers didn't pick up such basic flaws, or didn't have the book edited properly. It has allowed a potential blockbuster to come across as no better than average.
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