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The Calling
By Clinton, Cathryn
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76361-387-7
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2001
Gr 7-Up For Esta Lea Ridley, 13, God and family are "twined together like vines in a ditch." These complex relationships are the basis for her humorous, sincere account of faith healing set in South Carolina, 1962. A year after she feels God's call, the teen is as surprised as anyone when she lays hands on her grandmother and cures her deafness. Another miraculous healing follows, and soon she is ordained in the family's Beulah Land Healing and Holiness Church, then sent on a healing ministry. She is accompanied b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
