St. Therese is also known as "The Little Flower"and "Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus".
I'd intended to write about a special children's bookafter my girls and I finished reading it, but because it's St. Therese's feastday, I'll do that today.
Olivia and the Little Way by Nancy Carabio Belanger is the story of afifth grade girl who has moved to a new school. She wants to make friends andalso practice Saint Therese's "Little Way" of doing service to God.
My girls are in 6th grade and homeschool, but that was nohindrance to them falling madly in love with this book. Olivia, the maincharacter, is realistic. She has flaws. She's impulsive and though she wants tobe good, she sometimes is very naughty. We follow her struggles carefully,rooting for her to overcome urges to do the wrong thing--applauding when shesucceeds and sighing sadly when she messes up. Though the book deals with abattle within the main character herself, the book is more intense than manyadventure novels.
Lovely realistic drawings, by Sandra Casali LewAllen,appear throughout the novel. Eachchapter closes with a little hint that makes the reader crave to read on. Eachchapter opens with a quote from St. Therese. My girls are even more wrapped upin this book than the fantasy adventure we're also currently reading. When wefinish a chapter, it's always, "One more, please!!!"
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