Rating: Summary: Angel of Mercy Review: AMAZING! i loved every word of it, a real page turnner! i absolutly loved Angel of Mercy! it got me thinking about after high school? this book was like god putting his hand on my shoulder and tilting my head in a new direction, i've always loved helping people and know i know what i am going to do as a adult, i'm going to become a doctor and move to a underdeleloped contry (most likly africa because i love it so much) and i'm going to help out. And become a missionairy! reading Angel of Mercy and Angel of Hope have given me direction in a world i have had torn apart, i know what its like to be hurt and this book no only helped me heal but gain many things that have been laking in my life -Alysha-
Rating: Summary: This book changed my life forever!! Review: Angel Of Hope is an awesome book. It was the first of her books that i read and definately not the last. Amber's experiences in Africa have made me change what career i want to have in the future. Lurlene McDaniel wrote this book perfectly. It also had so much information that is useful. The way that Amber changed while she was in Africa taking her sisters place was amazing and totally realistic. I reccommend this for anyone who wants to read a good book. Also read Angel Of Mercy.
Rating: Summary: Angel of Hope Review: Angel of Hope is an incredible book. It's the second to another book called Angel of Mercy. This book that I read is about a young girl named Amber who follows in her older sister's footsteps. Her sister Heather in the first book goes on a missionary trip to Africa to as she feels "save the world." Now, in the second book she is home and wants so bad to go back. She talks her mother who is a plastic surgeon into going back to Africa to help the need. then all of the sudden she gets sick and her sister amber has to go in her place. The dialogue in this book is great and the content is really good. I recommend this book to you or anyone.
Rating: Summary: A moving, exceptional novel. Review: As someone who has been reading McDaniel's books for neraly 10 years I must say this is the best offering that I've seen from her. Her words are alive and all arrays and extremes of feeling leap off the pages and into the heart and mind of the reader. I should have grown out of McDaniel's books long ago but it is just this kind of maturity, angst, and innocence lost that keeps me comming back for more. The characters in this book are excellent role models for teenagers as they showcase hope, self-sacrafice, endurance, and a unshakeable faith in God. Something sorely missing in much of the lives of today's youth. This is the sort of book that after you've finished it and wiped away the tears you want to go out and become a better person. Read this book. Read it and remeber the lessons it teaches you. You'll be a greater human being because of it.
Rating: Summary: Wonderful! Review: As usual Lurlene McDaniel wrote a wonderful novel! It'sdefinitely a must read!
Rating: Summary: Amazing Review: Breaking through the shadow like Amber we learn that God does have a mission for all of us.
Rating: Summary: Angel of Hope Review Review: Hi! My name is Aanchal Soni. I am 16 years old. I recently read Angel of Hope for an English class. I found the book delightful and a moral on the fact of finding what satisfies you in life may be the littlest things. In this book, Heather Barlow is a missionary who returns to the U.S. from Africa. She has had the experience of a lifetime and is feeling unsatisfied being at home. She spent her time helping families in Uganda and found it to be the most satisfying feeling in the world. This book tells about how she strives to go back against her parents wishes. On the other hand, her younger sister, Amber, who is a senior in highschool, has not found her meaning in life and tries to search for it. I think it's a wonderful book that would really help people who have not found what their satisfaction in life is. It also may help guide people to the fact that the slightest things that they accomplish may be what they live for. I would highly reccomend this book to any do-gooders and people that seek an adventure.
Rating: Summary: Angel of Hope Review: I absolutely loved this book! I've read all of Lurlene McDaniel's novels, but this was by far one of the best. I've gone on three missions trips already, but reading Angel of Hope and its companion, Angel of Mercy, made me want to do the type of missionary work Amber and her sister did in the stories. I thought it was a truly inspiring novel, and I highly recommend it to fans of the "need a Kleenex when you read"-type story!
Rating: Summary: The Best of the Best Review: I have loved reading Lurlene McDaniel's books for many years and I would have to say this is the BEST of the best! I was so compeltely taken in by this book. I loved the story of Heather trying to adjust back to the USA, I loved the emotional situtaions Amber found herself in and how she would do anything for Heather and I lvoed that the mother and Amber ended up going to Africa....I have always had a place in my heart for the children in Africa and this just made me want to do more....I am planning a missiosn trip there next summmer...as soon as I put down the book I got active. This book is sad...but so full of HOPE! CONGRATS!
Rating: Summary: Angel of Hope Review: I have never been to Africa before but novelist Lurlene McDaniel made me believe I was there in some of the harshest times of diseases going around. Amber Barlow goes half around the world to Africa. She finds out about environments are around her that she doesn't have to live in them. She feels what it's like to change people's lives and to see death right in front of her. Death is that hardest thing to her to overcome; maybe she can't overcome it at all! You will have to read the book, Angel of Hope to find out for yourself. Towards the end of the book, Heather comes down with a life - threatening illness. This makes Amber's trip come to an end faster than it was going to. She comes home to be with her sister and help her through everything. I like they way Amber and Heather come together and have a good relationship at the end. These type things just want to make you keep turning the pages to see what happens! Boyce is a good-looking boy who is in Africa also on a missionary trip and at first acts like a friend to Amber. Months later, things begin to change with his and her feelings both. Boyce is a big help to her while she is there. He tells her things that truly help her in the long run! The reason I liked this book and enjoyed it so much was because of all the relationships that go on between the people in Africa and Amber's family. Amber's mom decides to tag along and go operate on the kids and adults there with disabilities and people that has problems with they way they look. Angel of Hope is a great book for young adult readers. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in books about death, dying, and relationships, as in other words sad books. Notes about Lurlene McDaniel... Lurlene McDaniel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McDaniel started writing novels 25 years ago. Her son was near death from un-diagnosed juvenile diabetes. She researched the disease and that's what inspired her to write stories about illness and death. McDaniel has written over 40 novels. Lurlene's most popular books are Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, and Six Months to Live. The book Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep won the romance writer award for best YA Romance in 1992. Lurlene McDaniel's newest book at this point is the Time Capsule. Lurlene mostly writes about cancer, death, and dying because, young adults are curious about such things and hardly ever talk about it. In Lurlene's books she doesn't use real people, but they act as if they are real in the book with feelings and everything else. Lurlene says, "Always realize that no matter how sad life is, it is always worth living!"
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