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    Miriam's Well
    Miriam's Well
    Miriam's Well
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    Miriam's Well

    By Lois Ruby

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    A terminally ill teenager is forced to choose between her religion and her life

    Adam doesn’t think much of it when Miriam faints in class. She’s an oddball, a student who hardly talks, never makes eye contact, and wears clothes that seem straight out of the 19th century. She says she’s fine, and he wants to believe her. But when she passes out while they’re working on an English assignment, Adam takes Miriam to the last place she wants to go: the hospital. Miriam has bone cancer. She believes that God will heal her, but if He doesn’t, she plans to let herself die.
     
    Miriam is a member of a devout religious sect in which women have little power and medicine is strictly forbidden. In order for Miriam to forgo treatment, Adam’s father sues the state on her behalf—even as Adam himself tries to convince her to accept the doctors’ help. As her illness rages on, Miriam will teach Adam the meaning of love and faith—and he will give her a reason to live.
     
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateJul 21, 2015
    ISBN9781504013628
    Miriam's Well
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    Lois Ruby

    Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriam’s Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits, Skin Deep, and The Doll Graveyard. Her fiction runs the gamut from contemporary to historical and from realistic to paranormal. An ex-librarian, Ruby now writes full-time, in addition to speaking to bookish groups, presenting at writing workshops, and touting literacy and the joys of nourishing, thought-provoking reading in schools across the country. Ruby and her husband live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.

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      ??? It was very hard to understand. I didn't get the ending at all. The whole book was just so heartbreaking.
    • 5/5
      When I was growing up, this was one of my favorite books. (In fact, I bought a second copy because my first one was so tron up) Adam is a typical American teenage boy. Although he was raised Jewish, he doesn't really believe in it. Miriam is a classmate of Adam's who belongs to a religious sect that, among other things, frowns on medical treatment. When it turns out that she has cancer, the government requires that she be treated for it. Adam and Miriam are assigned to do a project together, and this leads to their lives becoming increasingly connected, and, amongst the legal battle of religion versus the state, they fall in love...

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