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    The Case of the Vanishing Novice
    The Case of the Vanishing Novice
    The Case of the Vanishing Novice
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    The Case of the Vanishing Novice

    By Karen Kelly Boyce

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    Meet the Sisters of the Last Straw, a group of sisters struggling hard to overcome their bad habits. Sister Krumbles forgets everything. Sister Shiny can't stop polishing and cleaning everything. Mother Mercy has a terrible temper. Yet when the misfit nuns band together to form a new order, lessons on tolerance and forgiveness (as well as much hilarity!) ensue. Wonderfully illustrated by Sue Gioulis, this series by veteran Catholic novelist Karen Kelly Boyce is sure to please readers of all ages. A new puppy and a nasty neighbor make trouble for the Sisters...and then their new sister-in-training, Kathy, vanishes!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTAN Books
    Release dateOct 3, 2018
    ISBN9781505111880
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      The Case of the Vanishing Novice - Karen Kelly Boyce

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      Stepping In It

      Sister Shiny’s eyes popped open. It was still dark in her bedroom, but her large grin seemed to light the room. She slipped her feet into her white slippers, tied her fluffy robe around her waist and tiptoed quietly out the door.

      Last week, when Sister Shiny came downstairs, Mary, the housekeeper, had already finished cleaning the convent! There was nothing left for Sister Shiny to clean. All week she had been upset about it. So today Sister Shiny had set her alarm clock to wake her up an hour before Mary arrived.

      And it worked! Sister Shiny was happy as she snuck downstairs. She grabbed a cloth and spray bottle from the closet and began to clean.

      Sister Shiny started in the parlor by spraying the large mirror. She almost squealed with delight. Today she would clean all the mirrors, windows, and shiny surfaces. Not only can I clean, she smiled, I also get to look at myself while I do it!

      Looking at herself in the mirror, she wondered why God had made her so pretty. She knew it was wrong to think so much about how she looked. It was vanity—and her vanity had gotten her dismissed from all the religious orders she had tried to enter before.

      Sister Shiny’s superiors had told her the problem was not only that she liked to look at herself. The problem was that it distracted her from her other duties. Whenever Sister Shiny was given a job, she would see herself in a mirror and forget what she was doing. She would spend time admiring herself instead of doing her work.

      She had tried to stop, but never succeeded. That was why she had been asked to leave the other communities of sisters she had tried to join.

      But this community, Our Lady of the Angels, was different. All the Sisters in this convent struggled with bad habits. This order was a chance for them to try to conquer their faults together.

      Sister Shiny was glad that she had been allowed to join, even if their Bishop jokingly had nicknamed them the Sisters of the Last Straw. Still, she could not really see what was wrong with admiring herself. If God didn’t want me to enjoy looking at myself, why did He make me so beautiful? Sister Shiny wondered.

      Look at those large green eyes, and my flawless skin, she whispered to herself as she worked. Cleaning this big mirror gave her a nice long time to admire herself.

      Sister Shiny cleaned and cleaned. By the time she heard Mary opening the convent door, she was almost done. She looked at her happy face in the shiny side of the toaster one more time. That’s when she felt it. A cold, wet liquid was soaking her slipper. What is it? she thought, looking down.

      No….I’m dirty! she screamed. Mary came running as the howling woke the other Sisters in the house.

      Mother Mercy jumped from her bed. Scrambling for her glasses on the nightstand, she tried to get them on. Looking at the clock, she could feel her face getting warm.

      What kind of racket is going on downstairs this early in the morning? she shouted. Something was wrong, and she had better find out what it was. Lord, help me be patient! she thought.

      Oh! Waking Wailings! muttered Sister Lacey when she heard the screams. The short sister quickly put on her robe. When she got excited, she had a habit

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