When Peggy returns to Cedar River after giving her baby up for adoption, Lexi wonders if she and Peggy can still be friends and whether Peggy will really get a chance for a new start
Judy Baer was born and grew up on a farm on the prairies of North Dakota, USA. An only child, she spent most of her days with imaginary people-either those she read about or those she made up in her head. Her most ambitious conjuring did not succeed, however. She kept a clean stall with hay and oats for the horse she imagined would come but unfortunately, it never did. As an adult, however, she managed to make that dream come true and raised foundation quarter horses and buffalo for some years. A voracious reader, Judy learned to read with comic books, anything from Little Lulu and Superman to the Rawhide Kid. She sold her first story for $10.00 to a farm magazine. She still has the $10.00.
She graduated from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota with a major in English and education and a minor in religion. At the time, she was simply studying what interested her, but now realizes that she was educating herself for her future career as an inspirational christian romance writer.
Judy wanted to write for Harlequin even in high school but it wasn't until her youngest child learned to say "No" that she realized that she'd better consider a second career to fall back on when mothering was done. Her first book was written with her little girl on her lap. Judy would type a few words, say "Now, Jennifer," at which time her daughter would hit the space bar before Judy continued typing. It wasn't the fastest way to work, but it offered a lot of mother-daughter time together. An over-achiever, she's written 71 books for various publishers. The mother of two and step-mother of three, she now has lots of family to enjoy.
In 2001, she went back to school and became a certified professional life coach. Currently she is working on her Master's in Human Development in the areas of writing, coaching and spirituality and writing inspirational Chick Lit which, she says, is the most fun she's ever had writing.
I thought this novel had a very good storyline. I liked the environmental aspect of it, especially considering that this book was written in 1991. But I didn’t find the the book itself to be very well written. The back of my copy says that it’s a book for young adults. I’m 24, and found myself thinking that it would actually suit people in the 12-17 age range. This was the only book from this series that I have read.
In this book Lexi's friends are finding life changing as Peggy returns after a long trip that not many of her friends know fully about and school gets out for the summer. The gang decides to do something about the environment and encourage changes to take care of God's world.
I am impressed with the environmental ideas presented in this book, especially as it was published in 1991. I would be interested in reading the author's opinions on the environment today.