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    Sophie's Stormy Summer
    Sophie's Stormy Summer
    Sophie's Stormy Summer
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    Sophie's Stormy Summer

    By Nancy N. Rue

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    Is this the end of childhood? When a serious illness strikes one of the Flakes, the others can't daydream their way out of the shocking news. Instead they rally 'round and find that friends—and faith—show the way to a new adventure called growing up.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateDec 15, 2009
    ISBN9780310568773
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    Nancy N. Rue

    Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband, Jim, have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee.

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      Sophie's Stormy Summer - Nancy N. Rue

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      Other books in the growing Faithgirlz!™ library

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      Sophie’s Secret (Book Two)

      Sophie Under Pressure(Book Three)

      Sophie Steps Up (Book Four)

      Sophie’s First Dance (Book Five)

      Sophie’s Friendship Fiasco (Book Seven)

      Sophie and the New Girl (Book Eight)

      Sophie Flakes Out (Book Nine)

      Sophie Loves Jimmy (Book Ten)

      Sophie’s Drama (Book Eleven)

      Sophie Gets Real (Book Twelve)

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      ZONDERVAN

      Sophie’s Stormy Summer

      Copyright © 2005, 2009 by Nancy Rue

      This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition September 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-56877-3

      Requests for information should be addressed to:

      Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Rue, Nancy N.

      Sophie’s stormy summer / Nancy Rue.

              p. cm. — (Faithgirlz)

      Summary: The Corn Flakes Summary: The Corn Flakes are devastated to learn that Kitty has cancer, but when summer vacations separate them and put their new film on hold, Sophie determines to do anything God calls her to do to make Kitty feel better — even give up her beautiful hair.

      ISBN: 978 –0–310–70761–5 (softcover)

      [1. Cancer — Fiction. 2. Diseases —Fiction. 3. Sick —Fiction. 4. Friendship —Fiction. 5. Christian life —Fiction. 6. Imagination —Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.

      PZ7.R88515Sn 2005

      [Fic] – dc22                                                                                                       2004030899

      All Scripture quotations unless otherwise noted are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Any Internet addresses (websites, blogs, etc.) and telephone numbers printed in this book are offered as a resource. They are not intended in any way to be or imply an endorsement by Zondervan, nor does Zondervan vouch for the content of these sites and numbers for the life of this book.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920. www.alivecommunucations.com

      Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan.

      Interior art direction and design: Sarah Molegraaf

      Cover illustrator: Steve James

      Interior design and composition: Carlos Estrada and Sherri L. Hoffman

      So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,

      but on what is unseen.

      For what is seen is temporary,

      but what is unseen is eternal.

      — 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

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      Contents

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      Glossary

      About the Author

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      No way would I ever want to be a lifeguard here," Maggie said.

      Sophie tilted her head back to look from under her floppy hat at her getting-tanner-by-the-minute friends.

      Sophie’s best-best friend, Fiona, didn’t look up from the miniature hut they were building with dried seaweed sticks in the sand. Instead, she kept poking them in the sand with one hand while she brushed the usual strand of hair out of one eye with the other. Why not, Mags? she said.

      Kitty wrinkled her made-like-china nose, now spattered with freckles. "I wouldn’t want to be a lifeguard, but I might want to be saved by one." Her dark ponytail bounced as she giggled — which she did at the end of almost every sentence.

      Of course you would, Darbie said with her lilting Irish accent. If it was a boy lifeguard.

      Gross, Fiona said.

      Sophie looked at Maggie, whose dark eyes were going from one of the Corn Flakes to another.

      So why wouldn’t you want to be a lifeguard here, Mags? she said.

      All the Corn Flakes sat back on their heels and squinted through the sun at Maggie.

      Because your little brother and sister are always screaming like there’s a shark attack twenty four-seven, Maggie said. Her words seemed to make soft thuds in the sand. But Sophie thought being at the beach even made Maggie’s matter-of-fact voice sound lighter. How does the lifeguard know when to save somebody and when not to?

      She nodded toward Fiona’s little brother, Rory, and her even littler sister, Isabella, who hadn’t stopped shouting and squealing the whole five days they had been at Virginia Beach.

      "Izzy and Rory have to make all those sounds at the seashore because they’re little," Sophie said. She had also felt like holding her arms out to the ocean and squealing several times since she and the Corn Flakes had been there, and she was TWELVE. It was as if the waves themselves, tumbling over one another like puppies, were setting her free. Well, that and the fact that she was here with the four people in the whole world with whom she could be herself.

      Sure, we’re flakes, Sophie thought happily. And we do corny stuff — but we are who we are.

      At least they’re making happy noises for a change, Darbie said, nodding toward Izzy and Rory. Usually they’re shrieking like terrorists. She clapped a sunblock-shiny hand over her mouth and looked quickly at Fiona’s mother. No offense, Dr. Bunting, she said through her fingers. They’re perfectly charming.

      Dr. Bunting pulled off her sunglasses and turned to Darbie. You were right the first time. They are little terrorists.

      What I can’t get, Fiona said, is why they always have to be throwing something — buckets, sand, food — on each OTHER. She sighed out loud. It’s heinous.

      Dr. Bunting blinked her gray-like-Fiona’s eyes and put her sunglasses back on. If tossing a few Cheetos is the worst those two do before we leave here, it’s because Miss Genevieve is the nanny from heaven.

      "I thought we were supposed to call her the au pair," Maggie said.

      Just call me Genevieve. The blonde, creamy-skinned woman who was on her knees making castle towers pointed a graceful finger at Rory. Get more of that sand you just gave me, she said to him. With it just wet enough, we can build anything.

      Rory trotted obediently toward the water with his bucket and shovel and Dr. Bunting looked out from under the brim of her white visor. See what I mean? she said.

      Sophie tried to imagine Fiona’s last nanny playing at the beach with Rory and Izzy doing things like dumping seashells over each other’s heads. Miss Odetta Clide had handed out demerits if they spilled their milk. True, she had turned out to be less like a steel rod than they’d thought at first, but she NEVER would have gotten on her hands and knees in the sand.

      The Corn Flakes — including their newest member, Willoughby — had all been worried about who would take Miss Odetta Clide’s place when she married Fiona’s grandfather Boppa, and they went off to Europe on their honeymoon for the summer. With Fiona’s parents taking all of the girls — except Willoughby, who was on vacation with her family — to Virginia Beach for ten whole days, the choice of a nanny would determine the amount of fun they could have.

      Sophie watched Genevieve drip wet sand through her hand to create a castle tower that looked the way soft ice cream piled on top of a cone. The au pair’s thick braid hung over her shoulder like a silk rope, and her blue eyes seemed to hug Isabella as the curly-headed four-year-old tried to dribble sand through her tiny fingers. I want to be like Genevieve when I grow up, Sophie thought.

      Not that she WANTED to — at least not right now. Here — building a little beach hut out of dried seaweed with her best friends, she didn’t have to think about anything scary, like starting middle school in two months …

      Okay, Sophie said out loud. Everybody tell their favorite part about being at the beach so far.

      Fiona pushed a stubborn strand of golden-brown hair behind one ear as she poked the sticks into the adobe-colored sand as if she was doing math. I liked it when we dug those giant bowls in the sand and climbed in there, all of us together.

      We KILLED ourselves laughing over things that are funny only to us, Darbie said.

      Was that your favorite too? Sophie said to her.

      Darbie kept weaving seaweed into the roof of their masterpiece. Her reddish hair and her snapping eyes were as dark as her flesh was white. She was the one most likely to burn like a marshmallow. Sophie liked

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