Carley's Song (Book 2 of the Job's Corner Chronicles)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933523107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Why the prickly tension between the beautiful divorcee, Maddie Raeburn, and the school principal, Jerry Donaldson? What lies behind the sudden and disturbing change in behavior of Grace, Uncle Stephen and Aunt Kate's maid? How did Emily, Maddie's sister-in-law, acquire her broken jaw and bruised face?As the web of circumstances, relationships, and faith that surrounds her grows increasingly intricate, Carley makes a shocking discovery at the gully on the town's outskirts, and a longstanding mystery suddenly becomes something much more sinister. One very ugly skeleton has popped out of someone's closet. But whose? The futures of innocent people hand in the balance as Job's Corner digs to get at the root of its deepest, darkest secret of all."Sprinkle is adept at crafting memorable settings that feel historically authentic the writing is superb there's plenty of redemption and hope laced throughout " —Publishers Weekly. The exciting sequel to THE REMEMBER BOX.Poised at the edge of a mystifying adult world, twelve-year-old Carley grapples with complexities she doesn't understan
Patricia Sprinkle grew up in North Carolina and Florida, graduated from Vassar College, and afterwards spent a year writing in the Scottish Highlands. When she is not writing, Patricia is active in advocacy for abused, neglected, and deprived children. She has been writing mysteries full time since 1988, and currently lives in Smyrna, Georgia, a subu
From Publishers Weekly Sprinkle follows up The Remember Box with this absorbing continuation of the life of an adolescent girl in North Carolina in the 1950s. There are some problematic areas: the dialect of a five-year-old character is grating, and Sprinkle might better have focused on one or two crises rather than throwing in every disaster imaginable, several of them predictable (we can see one character's rape and the school fire coming a mile away). Stephen Whitfield, says, "Snow is a lot like grace both cover a heap of dirt and make everything more beautiful." Sprinkle is adept at crafting memorable settings that feel historically authentic, and she portrays Carley's first crush on an unobtainable older man in sweet, nostalgic ways. Job's Corner has become
"Devastated" according to J. Terry. I read the The Remember Box (the prequel to Carley's Song) because my mom was reading it and she wanted me to read it too. Too busy to even think these days, it's the last thing I wanted to do, but didn't want to disappointment mom. Because my mind is always running a hundred miles a minute, the book was just killing me at first. I remembered all the great books I've read -- how so many start out "slow" -- and decided to stick with it. SO GLAD I DID. The Remember Box and Carley's Song are a. Carley's Song is Great I really enjoyed this sequal to The Remember Box. I found the book an interesting and easy read. Sprinkle's characters are believeable and engaging. I enjoyed her depiction of Carley's gradual move into the challenges and feelings of adolescence.I also enjoyed learning about N. Carolina attitudes and culture of the 1950's, and the characters' perspectives on the Korean War and the Cold War. Having grown up during a similar time in a different part of the world, I found it interesting to rea. "Carley's Song" according to Kirsta. I really enjoyed reading Carley's Song because Patricia Sprinkle did a great job of explaining how Carley felt throughout her experiences. I had already read The Remember Box, the first book in the series, and it was a really good book, so I knew I had to read Carley's Song. But I really disliked the character Freda and how she used Carley all the time, and how Carley just went along with it. I really liked her little cousin Abby though, but it seemed as if she always cheered everyone aroun