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Popular, outgoing Adam befriends shy, religious Miriam, but when she is diagnosed with cancer, her religion forces her to refuse medical treatment and Adam is horrified to learn that the lawyer handling the church's case is his father. Reprint.
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About the Author
Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriam’s Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits, Skin Deep, and The Doll Graveyard. Her fiction runs the gamut from contemporary to historical and from realistic to paranormal. An ex-librarian, Ruby now writes full-time, in addition to speaking to bookish groups, presenting at writing workshops, and touting literacy and the joys of nourishing, thought-provoking reading in schools across the country. Ruby and her husband live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.
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Grade 7 Up-- Miriam Pelham and Adam Bergen are assigned as partners for an English class project. He is happy-go-lucky, lazy, popular, and Jewish. She is quiet, serious, and a member of an evangelical sect. Her Sword and the Spirit Church believes that illness is a sign of weakness and/or wrong doing, and reject all medical treatment. When Miriam collapses in front of Adam and his take-charge girlfriend, Diana, they take her to an emergency clinic and she is made a ward of the court. To Adam's consternation, his social-activist, lawyer father decides to represent the church in its First Amendment defense. Adam finds himself surprisingly drawn to Miriam, and a romance develops. She is treated for bone cancer with court-ordered chemotherapy and radiation, along with touch therapy performed by a Buddhist doctor. In the end, Miriam is indeed well and all diverse groups claim victory. Through the course of the story, cynical Adam begins to mature into a likable, caring individual. Miriam also begins to exhibit some independence, understanding, and inner beauty. Alternating narrative chapters between the two add an understanding of diverse viewpoints. Ruby covers all schools of thought in a sympathetic, informative manner. The picture of the church is not all favorable; Miriam's mother is subservient. Loose ends, such as Miriam's father's whereabouts and whether the cancer will reoccur, add reality and points for thought-provoking discussions.
- Susan Rosenkoetter, Rochester Public Library, NY
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- PublisherPoint
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0590449389
- ISBN 13 9780590449380
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
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