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After her older sister Heather, enthusiastic about changing the world, returns from doing medical missionary work in Uganda, seventeen-year-old Amber feels ignored and confused about her own future and decides to go back to Africa in Heather's place.Tags
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This book is about a young girl named Heather and her mission experience to Africa. She leaves behind a comfortable LA life style and sees the way in which people in Africa live and the culture there. Upon being on a mission trip, she meets new friends that give her a better understanding of life and of God.
I love this book and have been reading and rereading it for years. It makes me want to go to Africa. You can visualize the Africa wilderness and it is neat to see how the characters react to being there. I learned a lot about what they eat over there. Many banannas and rice dishes. At one point in the book, a character is badly missing peanut butter from the sttates. This book made me appreciate peanut butter and the little things show more i take for granted.
For extension ideas, I would show the students how that the MercyShip that Heather and her friends traveled on was indeed a real ship with missionaries going around the world administering care. I would also cook African dishes to help them see what the missionaries ate and show slideshows or make use of virtual tours. show less
I love this book and have been reading and rereading it for years. It makes me want to go to Africa. You can visualize the Africa wilderness and it is neat to see how the characters react to being there. I learned a lot about what they eat over there. Many banannas and rice dishes. At one point in the book, a character is badly missing peanut butter from the sttates. This book made me appreciate peanut butter and the little things show more i take for granted.
For extension ideas, I would show the students how that the MercyShip that Heather and her friends traveled on was indeed a real ship with missionaries going around the world administering care. I would also cook African dishes to help them see what the missionaries ate and show slideshows or make use of virtual tours. show less
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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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- Angel of Hope
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