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She did everything properly,\nall promises kept on her side of the bargain,
\nbut evidently God has other plans for her mom…<\/p>\n
She did everything properly,
\nall promises kept on her side of the bargain,
\nbut evidently God has other plans for her mom…<\/p>\n
Asked by her own parents to be counselor at a different camp, while Mom recovers at their family’s church camp just around the lakeshore – Lucy is angry at God for letting the cancer<\/a> come back and at her boyfriend for ‘pausing’ their relationship for summer. <\/p>\n If she can salvage even a scrap of comfort from working with little kids who spend the summer at Daybreak to escape terrible situations… <\/p>\n This mid-May 2017 novel is stirring, honest, and powerful – faith isn’t always strong, past history is often murky, and the future is never promised to anyone. <\/p>\n (personally, I think the title has no relevance to the story at all. Wonder why @EmeryLord agreed to it – but authors don’t have total control over titles and rarely have a say about the cover art).<\/p>\n Have you ever bargained with God? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Names They Gave Us \/ Emery Lord. Bloomsbury Teens, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: All Lucy wants is summer at her parents’ church camp so she can get over Mom’s cancer returning and her boyfriend ‘pausing’ their perfect relationship, but the midwest teen finds herself at another camp nearby, where worry and hope (and Jones) wrestle for her attention.<\/p>\n The counselors and the campers at Daybreak all carry heavy burdens of past circumstances – Mom thinks this is better for Lucy than being with her between chemo sessions?<\/p>\n Just a mile between both camps so Lucy can still hear Dad’s sermons every Sunday – why does that distance seem to change constantly all summer?<\/p>\n Deepening friendships with fellow counselors during their summer together, especially with Henry Jones – can she have a crush on him, so soon after Lukas?<\/p>\n Big concerns affecting her littlest campers, fretting over chemo effects, wondering if she can remember every tiny detail about Mom, huge secrets revealed and memories made. 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