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    Indian Summer
    Indian Summer
    Indian Summer
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    Indian Summer

    By Dena Ellis Hamilton

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    Lissa's world consisted of friends, family, and movies. She knew who she was and what her future held. Her world was perfect...until she moved west and met George. Her world was never going to be the same after that summer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDena Ellis Hamilton
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9781452475172
    Indian Summer
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    Dena Ellis Hamilton

    I am a wife, mother, and grandmother. My husband and I are both disabled and both have a strong faith in God. Recent challenges and changes have awakened my love of writing. I hope you enjoy the fruits of my labor as much as I enjoy producing them.

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      Book preview

      Indian Summer - Dena Ellis Hamilton

      Chapter One

      It was 1967, and the world was moving on, but Lissa didn’t yet know just how much that

      summer would change her world. She stared out the window of the old woody daydreaming

      about handsome cowboys and beautiful Indian girls as Frankie Val i played on the radio.

      Melissa Lissa Gayle Harding was born, and had lived al of her 11 years, in St. Paul,

      Minnesota. Her dad, James Harding, was a beat writer for The Dispatch, but dreamed of being

      a big time novelist. Her mom, Frances Frankie Harding, looked more like a movie star than

      someone’s mother. Lissa often pretended that Frankie was a famous movie star and that she

      dressed Lissa is fancy clothes and sent her to school in a big limousine. In her fantasies, The

      Pest, aka James Harding Jr. or JR for short, was the son of one of the servants and not her little

      brother.

      For as long as she could remember, Lissa’s world consisted of family dinners, school, swimming

      and movies in the summer time, ice skating in the winter, and Gidge. Gidget Thompson was

      exactly 3 weeks younger than Lissa and her best friend. Their favorite pastime was pretending

      to be the beautiful women in the movies they saw every Saturday afternoon. Lissa lived for

      Saturdays. Not only did she get to spend time with Gidge, but for two whole hours she could go

      somewhere other than Minnesota, at least in her head. She didn’t even mind when Mom made

      her take The Pest with her.

      JR was two years younger than his sister. In many ways they were complete opposites. Lissa

      was tal with red hair and green eyes like her mother. JR was smal for his age, with his father’s

      mousy brown hair and light brown eyes. Lissa enjoyed going places and being around a lot of

      people. JR was shy and preferred to be around only people he knew well. Lissa loved movies,

      but JR was a bookworm. He only went to the movies on Saturdays for two reasons: Mom

      thought he needed to get out more and he absolutely adored his older sister and would do

      anything to spend time with her. There was one thing they did have in common. They both

      longed for adventure.

      When JR read his stories about young adventurers or kid detectives, he imagined himself as the

      lead character. In his mind, he travel ed the world and had great adventures solving mysteries

      and saving mil ions from certain catastrophe. In his real life, he had no friends, other than his

      sister. At school, he ate alone at lunch, read during recess, and kept his head down most of the

      time in hopes of not being noticed by the bul ies. At home, he read, except when he got to go to

      the movies with Lissa.

      On the last day of school, Lissa and Gidge talked excitedly on the walk home. They talked about

      the new John Wayne movie they planned to see the next day, the one with Kirk Douglas in it.

      They talked about swimming and sleep-overs and a hundred and one things young girls do on

      summer vacation. Mostly they talked about going to middle school next year.

      They smel ed the cookies before they even got to the Thompson house. Mrs. Thompson made

      the best cookies in the whole wide world! The girls ran through the front

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