The Penny: A Novel
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0446578118
ISBN 13
9780446578110
Category
FICTION
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Pages
256
Description
Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don'tamount to much, but little decisions sometimes transformeverything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14,when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embeddedin asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery,getting a job, and meeting someone who changes herlife forever--Miss Shaw. Together they form a friendshipthat dares both of them to confront secrets in theirpasts--secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helpsMiss Shaw open up to the community around her, whileMiss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painfulchallenges with confidence and faith. This unexpectedrelationship transforms them both in ways neithercould have anticipated, and the ripple effect that beginsthat summer goes on to bring new life to the peoplearound them, revealing how God works in the smallestdetails--even in something as small as THE PENNY. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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