Angel for Molly

Forever Angels

by Suzanne Weyn, Mark English (Illustrator), Katrina (Photographer)

Molly's father has decided to let her join him on a business trip, and they'll be staying in an ancient Irish castle. She's hoping she can talk with her father about some things really important to her. But once there, Molly's father is preoccupied. When Molly comes up with a reckless plan to get his attention, the plan backfires and Molly needs rescuing.

Genres: Childrens, Angels, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Friendship, Paranormal

174 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1995

About the author

Suzanne Weyn grew up in Williston Park, Long Island, New York. She has three sisters and a brother. As a girl, she was very interested in theatre and in reading. Louisa May Alcott was her favorite author, but she also read every Sherlock Holmes story. Suzanne lived pretty close to the ocean and going to Jones Beach was one of her favorite activities. Even today, if she goes too long without seeing the ocean, she starts feeling restless.

Suzanne now lives in upper New York State with her husband, two teen daughters and Abby the cat. Her house is at the edge of the woods and is nearly 200 years old. She graduated from State University of New York at Binghamton and received her master's degree from Pace University. She teaches part-time at City College in New York.

Suzanne's other books for Simon Pulse include South Beach Sizzle, a romantic comedy written with Diana Gonzalez. Her novels for the Simon Pulse line "Once Upon a Time" are The Night Dance: A Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, Water Song: A Retelling of the Frog Prince, and The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumplestiltskin. She very much enjoys rethinking these classic tales from an original point of view, always looking for the real psychological underpinning of the story. Suzanne is currently doing revisions on her fourth book in the line, which will be coming in 2009.

Suzanne's other recent novels are include The Bar Code Tattoo (2004) and its sequel, The Bar Code Rebellion (2006). The Bar Code Tattoo was selected by the American Library Assoc. (ALA) as a 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction. It is currently translated into German and was nominated for the 2007 Jugenliteraturpreis for Young People's Literature.

Reviews

[Randie D. Camp, M.S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read repeatedly in 4th grade, offers hope.

[Tina Samuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a wonder how easily we lose sight of ourselves. We become engrossed in the views of others that we barely see who we are. It's tragic that we are not taught to be firmly rooted in our own truth. That some thoughts just need to be acknowledged so that we can move past them. A repeated thought cannot change the truth no matter how firmly we believe it. I suppose at the end of the day, we all really need our loved ones to help us find our way.

[magda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bought for 1$ outside a tucked away second hand book store. Nice surprise that it takes place in a ranch since I am a horse girl :•) Cute little feel-good story.🪽
CW for eating disorders!

[Fiona · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was just a re-read for me because I’ve already read this book when I was younger. I don’t remember much about the story so I decided to read it again just today. Although I still quite remember the ending, I have totally forgotten about the characters except for Christina because she’s on the title.

It was a nice story, about angels and all. Other than that, I think it has a very powerful story about how looks matter to girls. That might be the thing I missed out the first time I read it, it has a greater story which is about insecurity and girls just wanting to be perfect. I can relate very well to the main character, Christina, because even thought she's a tall girl, she considers her self fat. She does all these dieting and she takes all those pills just so she could be as thin as the girls on her ballet class. By the end of the book, she learns that the person she recognizes as “perfect” because she’s thin and pretty was actually very depressed and had an eating disorder. So since then they fixed things up and all and she found out that Adam was an angel (although you can really guess that he is an angel from the very beginning) and it ended well and yeah, it was good.

I enjoyed reading this book and it was a fun read so I’d give it a 4 out of 5

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

i liked this book. this about a girl, realy wanted to a ballet dancer but no one likes her. one day she meets this guy and helps her dance like a beautiful ballet dancer. she believes he is an angel and also his family are angel. i have the necklace of an ballet angel form this book when i bought it.

[Noelle Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a big nostalgia trip for me. I had read a number of books in this series when I was younger but not this one and it does have a decent enough lesson about body image and how much pressure to look a certain way can affect us, especially women and girls.

[Noelle Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another one of those nostalgic books for me, as I read a large chunk of this series when I was younger. It's a very good book that emphasizes the fact that it's a good idea to talk things out and not come up with reckless plans to force things, depending on what the issue is.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

very good, fun book

[mimi said · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bored.