Saturday, July 27, 2013

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

Faith, Hope and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Ivy June and Catherine are chosen to represent their schools in the seventh-grade exchange program. Ivy June goes first, travelling to Lexington to spend two weeks with Catherine attending her private school. Once she returns to Thunder Creek, though, things don't look the same. She begins to worry about what Catherine, with her school uniforms, matching curtains and comforter, and four bathrooms, is going to think of their tiny house on the mountain with no indoor plumbing. But once Catherine is on the mountain and tragedy strikes the families of both girls, it doesn't take them long to decide that sadness feels the same no matter where you are. Told in alternating journal entries with the story sandwiched in between, this story tells about how it's not the differences that matter, but the things that you share.

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