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1) Gilead
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
2) Lila
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lila, an abandoned, homeless girl who earned her street smarts while facing hardship after hardship with a sly young drifter, must decide which life is worth living when she marries the minister who takes her in, introducing her to a Christian worldview that makes her question the life she lived before.
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