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The penny : a novel

Meyer, Joyce 1943- (Author). Bedford, Deborah. (Added Author).

Summary: Inadvertently stopping a robbery when she makes a chance decision, fourteen-year-old Jenny Blake forges a life-changing friendship with Miss Shaw, who introduces Jenny to her surrounding community and teaches her about meeting painful life challenges through faith.

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  • ISBN: 9780446578110
  • ISBN: 0446578118
  • Physical Description: print
    247 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Faith Words ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Faith Words, 2007.

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General Note:
Includes reading group guide.
Subject: Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
Teenagers -- Fiction
Sexually abused teenagers -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Female friendship -- Fiction
Faith -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fiction
Genre: Christian fiction.

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Summary: Inadvertently stopping a robbery when she makes a chance decision, fourteen-year-old Jenny Blake forges a life-changing friendship with Miss Shaw, who introduces Jenny to her surrounding community and teaches her about meeting painful life challenges through faith.
"Jenny Blake has a theory about life : big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever, Miss Shaw. Together they form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts, secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms them both in ways neither could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins that summer goes on to bring new life to the people around them, revealing how God works in the smallest details, even in something as small as the penny."--Publisher description.

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