Devoted (31 page)

    Summary: Rachel Walker is devoted to God and her large family, but as her curiosity about the world her parents turned from grows and she finds that neither Calvary Christian Church nor her homeschool education has the answer she craves, she considers leaving her sheltered life, as an older sister did.

    ISBN 978-1-59643-911-5 (hardback)—ISBN 978-1-59643-912-2 (e-book) [1. Christian life—Fiction. 2. Family life—Texas—Fiction. 3. Home schooling—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Texas—Fiction.] I. Title.

    PZ7.M4274Dev 2015

    [Fic]—dc23

2014047411

eISBN 9781596439122

“The Summer Day” from
House of Light
by Mary Oliver, Published by Beacon Press Boston

Copyright 1990 by Mary Oliver

Reprinted by permission of The Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency Inc.

First hardcover edition, 2015

eBook edition, June 2015