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Romance. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:It's Christmas time, and Leah Lewis-Hall finds herself spending the holiday season alone and stuck in the hospital. Luckily, she quickly befriends her hospital roommate, a young Amish girl, and her close-knit Amish family. She becomes especially close to Ethan, the handsome and gentle older brother who can barely look Leah in the eye. When Leah receives frightening news about her condition, Ethan will show her that miracles can show more happen- and that sometimes angels appear in the most unexpected places.This nationally bestselling book is the first of three stories in The Angels Trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel. show less
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I cannot say a single bad thing about Lurlene McDaniel, her books or her writing style. When I was very young, she made me want to be a writer and an author. I devoured every book she wrote back then, and have enjoyed introducing them to my own teenage children now. I still read her new books as they are released. That said, this story did not disappoint. I've read the books in this series twice and they still are amazing every time.
I loved this book when I was younger. I thought all Amish people were like Ethan. I even fell in love with that name. I used to dress up as Leah on character day at school, that's how much this book moved me. Out of all the adventurous novels that were coming out then, and I was in the first batch of Harry Potter and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes releases, I dressed up like Leah Lewis-Hall
I really liked this book because it deals with a real life story. I have friends who went through the same things as Leah. Some moms put their husbands before their children. She started to think about others more by being in the hospital. She found out that she had lung cancer and this is what her grandmom died from. I would really recommend this book for people who can relate! -JB
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Lurlene McDaniel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1944. She received a B.A. in English from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Before she started writing young adult books, she wrote a magazine column and promos and commercials at a television station. After her children were born, she turned to freelance advertising. When show more her son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 3, she attended a convention for diabetes and met up with the organizer who connected her with a publishing company specializing in children's books. Her first book was Kickaroo: The Soccer Playing Kangaroo. She soon realized that writing picture books was not what she wanted to do, so she wrote Will Never Dance Again, about a girl who is diagnosed with diabetes. Thus began her career writing stories about teenagers who overcome life altering illnesses and the lessons learned. Her other books include Somewhere Between Life and Death, Too Young to Die, Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever, Six Months to Live, and The Year of Chasing Dreams. She received a RITA Award for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep and three IRA-CBC Children's Choice Awards. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1996-10
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- Leah Lewis-Hall
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .M4784172 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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