Days of Little Texas

Name: Days of Little Texas
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: R. A. Nelson
ISBN: 9781423394853

Author: R. A. Nelson

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/14/2009

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Horror

Synopsis

Too late to run. I take one last, shuddery breath, then walk toward the pulpit. A wind from the sorghum fields hits me, and the pages flap all the way from Leviticus to First Corinthians. Even after all this time, I am never quite ready for the scream. It’s here now, rolling over me. And I begin.At sixteen, Ronald Earl is no longer the boy-wonder preacher known to the faithful as Little Texas. But on the tent-revival circuit, his adoring followers still roar and praise his name. When he lays his hands on to heal, the spirit still fills him, and he truly believes that he is an instrument for good in a wicked, treacherous world. But lately he has also felt this sliver, this little sliver…of doubt.So when a girl in a blue dress is brought to him, nearly lifeless, he lays his hands upon her and feels a jolt shoot through him and into her. And as she smiles into his eyes, it seems that Little Texas has performed yet another miraculous healing. But Ronald Earl, he knows that something is not right. This one is different.Another small town, another revival, and the same girl appears in that same blue dress. A day later, on the fringe of the believers—a flash of blue. Is she just another of the grateful and devoted? Or is she something else? And is she not following but haunting him?Welcome, all ye faithful—and otherwise—to a ghost story, a romance, a reckoning. Come one, come all to Days of Little Texas.

About R. A. Nelson

R. A. Nelson made an exhilarating YA debut with the “by turns terrifying [and] poetic” Teach Me ( Horn Book) and followed that up with the “incandescent” (Kirkus) Breathe My Name. He lives with his family in north Alabama.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melodye on July 22, 2009

Brothers and Sisters, please put your hands together for Ronald Earl Pettway, aka Little Texas--the faith-healing child evangelist who takes the spotlight in R.A. Nelson’s latest novel, DAYS OF LITTLE TEXAS (Knopf, 2009). Ronald Earl's youth is scarred by tragedy. His father is sent to prison for gr......more

Goodreads review by Bronwyn on February 13, 2010

Ronald Earl Pettway, AKA Little Texas, has been the wonder boy preacher since he was 10 years old. Now at 16, Little Texas doesn't have quite the same brightness, but still draws huge crowds of the faithful on the tent revival circuit. He is beginning to get doubts, to wonder about the real world of......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on July 15, 2009

This is one of those times I wish GoodReads would allow us to award half stars, because this is better than a ***. R.A. Nelson got my attention a couple years ago with Breathe My Name, so I was anxious to start this one when the ARC made it to the store. Little Texas is a preaching phenom who travels......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on January 23, 2011

A good versus evil story with a built in history lesson. A young man, Little Texas, finds himself living with some rather distant and eccentric relatives that travel across the country as evangelicals. They pause in smaller towns to hold tent revivals. Little Texas has garnered a following as a spir......more

Goodreads review by ChelseaRenee on June 13, 2022

Riddled me confused. Okay…so an evangelistic, hand laying, preaching prodigy falls in love with the ghost of a girl he fails to really save, while he tries to come to terms with puberty and the devil being real. That’s basically the premise of the book and it came from left field, and I genuinely don......more