When Happily Ever After Ends
by Lurlene McDaniel
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Fifteen-year-old Shannon Campbell knew her father had been troubled since he served in the Vietnam War, but his violent suicide still shocks her. Shannon always shared so much with her father--why wasn't her love enough to make him want to live? As Shannon and her mother try to make sense of his death, they courageously renew their commitment to living in the face of their loss. Despite the hardships life may bring, they know they will forgive and love again.Tags
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Lurlene McDaniel knows how to write inspirational novels showing her younger readers that there is always hope despite whatever tragic circumstances might come their way.
In "When Happily Ever After Ends," fifteen-year-old Shannon has to deal with the sudden suicide of her beloved father. However, thanks to a loving mother and grandmother, and close friends, Shannon manages to slowly overcome her heartache and gradually learns to live again.
A sweet story dealing with loss, grief and forgiveness for tweens.
In "When Happily Ever After Ends," fifteen-year-old Shannon has to deal with the sudden suicide of her beloved father. However, thanks to a loving mother and grandmother, and close friends, Shannon manages to slowly overcome her heartache and gradually learns to live again.
A sweet story dealing with loss, grief and forgiveness for tweens.
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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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- When Happily Ever After Ends
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Children's Books, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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