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Reader reviewed by Sara E.

This if my favorite Lurlene McDainiel book. It's so heartbreakingly beautiful. It's part of the Angels trilogy, but I never did read the books previous to it. All of Lurlene's books focus on romance to some extent, but I felt this one focused on it a lot --- usually the main focus is sickness and death. The novel did deal with death, but it wasn't the main focus. Still, you're going to cry when you read it. A young girl Leah falls in love with a boy from a completely different world; an Amish community. At sixteen, during summer, the Amish allow their children to go out into the real world and see if they like it more than the simpe life they've known. Ethan, the Amish boy, takes this opportunity go and live with Leah --- but when he see's how her world is compared to his, he has to choose whether to stay in the "English" world or go back to his home at the Amish community.