Booth Rules

For six months, Marcus, Jayden, Sofia, Priya, Omar, and Grace have lived by rules they never said out loud — and a hard March of forwarded confidences, playoff stands, and a friend who goes quiet instead of saying he is not okay shows them what the unsaid version costs. So they write the rules down: five sentences, drafted in Sofia's handwriting on the back of a Mabel's Diner menu, argued over word by word, and ratified at the corner booth with all six present — including the girl who broke the first rule before it existed and has to learn to be covered by it instead of exempted from it. Grace Whitfield knows where the table's forgiveness actually comes from: in February she learned that Jesus Christ had forgiven her first, before she ever produced the improved version of herself, and everything she receives and gives at the booth runs downstream of that. Rooted in Proverbs 11:13 — the difference between a talebearer and a friend who can be trusted to keep a thing covered — Booth Rules is a Christian young adult novel about friendship, honesty, and grace that starts with Christ. It is Book Seven of The Corner Booth series.