Seventeen Wishes (Christy Miller)

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Summary: a good book
Review: Christy goes 2 summer camp. It is like a romance there becauseit turned out she was a counselor instead of a camper and it is prettystressing. Then jaeson(yes, that is how his name is spelled)is another counselor and the girls in her cabin are trying to fix then up. Christy learned alot of things that week of camp. This was the first book in the serries I read. I got it at a garage sale. When I finished, I went to the library and read all the other books. They are sooo good. I can't put them down!I just finished the college years book and I love the whole christy miller and sierra jenson serries. Good work Robin!

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Summary: A Summer Romance ... of sorts
Review: I love this Christy book! The summary focuses on Christy's summer camp adventures, but there is actually a bit of a different plot at the beginning. Christy and Katie go to visit Todd, Doug, and Rick at college and to stay for a meeting of God Lovers. They take a trip to the zoo, which proves quite eventful. Her adventures at summer camp are also funny...and touching, with a bit of a romance with Jaeson (a fellow counselor). The story ends on a good, and funny, note. It ends with Seventeen Wishes...

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Summary: Seventeen Wishes
Review: In Seventeen Wishes Christy Miller goes through a lot of hard ships and has to make many decisions and always has to turn to God for help. Christy Miller is seventeen years old and has to go to a summer camp and be a counselor for a bunch of wild fifth grade girls. While Christy is there she meets a really cute boy, Jaeson, which she tries to be around the whole time, but through this there is Todd. Todd is a boy that she had met on Newport Beach a couple of years before. She had really liked him, but their relation had gone nowhere. They were just really good friends.

My favorite part of the book was when Aunt Marti had a surprise birthday party for her and all her beach friends and everyone she had met was there. Then she made seventeen wishes. "Christy silently made seventeen wishes. And all of them started with Todd" (Gunn, 151).

I think this book is similar to my life in many different ways. One way it is similar to my life is that Christy is a teenage girl going through many hard times and has to make difficult decisions. Christy is always facing things that any teenage girl would face. I also think this is similar to my life because when she goes through those kinds of hard ships she always turns to God for help. When she is having trouble then she will pray about it and ask God for help and guidance. I do that too when I don't know what decision to make I turn to my family, friends, and God for help just like Christy. "At this moment, Christy knew His [God] forever peace (Gunn, 151).

While I was reading this book I saw some things that Robin Jones Gunn uses in her writing that I think is a very good idea to use in mine. When Gunn writes she puts Christy's thoughts in the story whenever she is thinking something. I like that a lot because I think it really shows the reader what Christy is really thinking. Gunn puts what Christy is thinking like someone is talking, but she doesn't put the thought in quotations, she just put it in Italics. I really like that a lot about her writing that she does in the Christy Miller Series. "I'm glad some things don't change. I wish I could be this age, on the beach, with these friends, for the next fifty years. I don't want things to change. Ever" (Gunn, 150).

I think this book is a lot about Christy and mostly about the hardships that she goes through and the decisions that she has to make. I think Seventeen Wishes is mainly for teenage girls so that they can realize that every teenage girl is going to go through the same hardships and decisions that they have to. I think the book is also a lot about Christy and her friends. The book is a lot about Todd and Jaeson, the boy she met at camp, and that decisions she has to make with them.