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Delacorte Press, May,
Hardcover, pages.
ISBN:
Ages 12 and up
Lurlene McDaniel has specialized in writing hard-hitting but inspirational novels about teenagers that have been widely praised by teachers, librarians, as well as teenagers. Garden of Angelsis her newest novel, and in it she takes on the ravages that breast cancer in a young mother can inflict on the entire family. Since this savage disease has attacked many women and their families, this story should touch many a reader.
In the calm before the storm, teenager Darcy Quinlen, fourteen years old and a good student is mainly interested in keeping up her school assignments and making social plans with her best friend. Her mother and father are going to drive to Atlanta so that Mrs. Quinlin can have some "tests." Darcy feels uneasy, buy she does not yet know about the storm that is coming. Darcy is mainly concerned with keeping up with the homework in her accelerated classes and keeping out of the way of her older sister who is a local beauty, but hardly a supportive and caring sister.
The Quinlin family lives in Conners, Alabama, a small town outside of Atllanta. Readers who have grown up in the South will recognize all that being Southern means. The traditions, the food, the importance of b
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Garden of Angels
My first Lurlene McDaniel book, I enjoyed this story. Good writing, a quick read, but with serious topics, bulling, friendships, boy/girl relationships, heartache, crushes, growing up, cancer, death This story takes place in small town USA, a Christian faith town. I'm not religious, so I'm usually not a fan of religious books because I feel most of them, at least the ones I've read, don't ring true to me, or it seems fake to me, and it doesn't go with the rest of the story. So I was glad that it wasn't over done, over played in this story, and it didn't seem fake.
Darcy is 14, her mother ends up having breast cancer. I had no idea what this story was about. I picked it up because I needed a short book to read before my library book came in, that I need to read for book club. This one was a hard one to read for me because presently my 49 year old younger sister is going through breast cancer. This story takes place in , so basically if a woman got breast cancer back then, it was a ticking bomb, not so much today (), thank God! And thank God for advancement in science and technology! Ye
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Publisher Description
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GENRE
Young Adult
PUBLISHER
Random Do Children's Books
SELLER
Penguin Random Line LLC
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