Christy's Choice

Christy #6

by C. Archer (Adapter), Catherine Marshall

Christy screamed as the train broke from the track and plunged down the side of the mountain. When Christy is offered a chance to teach in her hometown, she faces a difficult decision. Will her train ride back to Cutter Gap be a journey home, or a last farewell? In a moment of terror and danger, Christy must decide where her future lies.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical

118 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 22, 1996

Reviews

[Sarah Carpenter · Rating 4 out of 5]

You picked the wrong guy :(

[Sarita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another enjoyable installment in the Christy series. I am enjoying the smaller books in a most loved novel. It helps me savor the uniqueness of everything about Christy.

*I listened to the audiobook on Scribd.*

[C.A. Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

I assumed from the title and the cover here that Christy's choice would be between Doctor MacNeill and David, but that wasn't it at all--though that tension persists in every one of the novellas.

What really happens in this one is that Bessie Coburn, Ruby Mae's best friend, needs an operation that Doctor MacNeill doesn't have the equipment to perform in the cove. He needs to take her to Asheville to perform it, and asks Christy to come along, since she's from there and can make it a visit home as well. David doesn't want to let the two of them go alone, and also uses it as an opportunity to fund-raise for the mission, and Ruby Mae refuses to be left out because Bessie is her best friend. So they all go together.

While in Asheville, Christy remembers all the comforts of home, including an old beau who turns up and tries to woo her right in front of her two current suitors. This causes the doctor and David to team up for once, both believing that Christy will choose to return home, where she is offered a teaching position in a mission school right in her own backyard. Christy herself doesn't make up her mind until an accident at the very end causes her to realize what she values most.

[Glenys · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of Christy's students in unwell and needs surgery. Christy and ruby Mae accompany Bessie along with Neil (doctor) and David (Minister) to her hometown where the surgery will take place. Everyone stays at her parents place, there is a party at friends of the family where Christy is surprised to find Lance there. She and Lance went to school together and have known each other a long time. At a meeting of businessmen to discuss setting up a mission school in her hometown Christy is offered the job of teacher, this puts her in quite a dilemna should she stay with all the comforts of home or go back to Cutters Gap. There is a train derailment on the way back and in the moments before the acident Christy realises that she thinks of Cutters Gap as home.

[Kathryn Houghton · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are just so much fun to read. For some reason hearing those lines of “do the best you can and pray” and sometimes taking the direction in life that may not make sense or seem good but it’s the right decision really resonated with me. Even if something seems crazy to everyone else, it may end up being the right decision for you. Who knew these little stories would have so much truth!

[Eve (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤ (Semi-active) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it!!

[Cherish Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

(5☆ Would recommend & would read again)
I loved watching the Christy TV series was I was young. These books brought back a nostalgia and are well written. I loved this book series.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is yet another great short storyline following Christy through her perils and decisions.

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The plot seems a bit expected, as is the ending but it's not a bad thing