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Providence Kindle Edition

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The eldest of ten children on a dirt-poor farm, Becky trudges through life as a full-time babysitter, trying to avoid her father's periodic violent rages. When the family's barn burns down, her father lays the blame on Becky, and her own mother tells her to run for it. Run she does, hopping into an empty freight car. There, in a duffel bag, Becky finds an abandoned baby girl, only hours old. After years of tending to her siblings, sixteen-year-old Becky knows just what a baby needs. This baby needs a mother. With no mother around, Becky decides, at least temporarily, this baby needs her. When Becky hops off the train in a small Georgia town, it's with baby "Georgia" in her arms. When she meets Rosie, an eccentric thrift-shop owner, who comes to value and love Becky as no one ever has, Becky rashly claims the baby as her own. Not everyone in town is as welcoming as Rosie, though. Many suspect Becky and her baby are not what they seem. Among the doubters is a beautiful, reclusive woman with her own terrible loss and a long history with Rosie. As Becky's life becomes entangled with the lives of the people in town, including a handsome boy who suspects Becky is hiding something from her past, she finds her secrets more difficult to keep. Becky should grab the baby and run, but her newfound home and job with Rosie have given Becky the family she's never known. Despite her guilt over leaving her mother alone, she is happy for the first time. But it's a happiness not meant to last. When the truth comes out, Becky has the biggest decision of her life to make. Should she run away again? Should she stay--and fight? Or lie? What does the future hold for Becky and Georgia? With a greatness of heart and a stubborn insistence on hope found in few novels of any genre, Providence proves that home is where you find it, love is an active verb, and family is more than just a word.

"When 16-year-old Becky Miller rescues an abandoned newborn, a nontraditional family is born, attracting other warm-hearted women into its folds. Reading Providence is like cozying up with longtime friends in front of a homey fire." --Sherry Shahan, author of Skin and Bones (Albert Whitman & Co.)

"A beautifully written tale about trying to make the right choice when there might not be one." --Wendy Mass, author of A Mango-Shaped Space (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)

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258 pages
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English
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date

18 February 2014
Reading age

14 - 18 years
Grade level

10 - 12
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Lisa Colozza Cocca is the author of Providence, a Simon & Schuster book. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Becky's sweet-as-honey first-person narrative voice suits the dialogue-driven story well--she is an uncomplicated heroine, resourceful and completely without self-pity. --Kirkus Reviews

Rosie, Becky, and Georgia Rose create a family built of mutual need, love, and kindness in this gentle tale of life in nostalgic small-town America.... Cocca portrays a community of sympathetic characters...who believe in the promise of life's second chances. --Booklist

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (18 February 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages

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C. Lee McKenzie

Sweet and Nostalgic

Reviewed in the United States on 19 October 2014

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What a delight this was and what a surprise. ProvIdence is anything but the weird/extreme angsty side of young adult stories. It’s an example of good storytelling, an artful weaving of a fine web of characters to create a tale you have to read to the end.

When sixteen-year-old, Becky leaves her home to escape the wrath of her a domineering and sometimes cruel father, the last thing she expects is to find an abandoned baby. Her life has been filled with taking care of her eight—soon to be nine—younger brothers and sisters, so while she has freed herself from daily drudgery, she has immediately taken on even a bigger challenge.

Then she finds sanctuary in a small town. From then on, while there are no explosive scenes, there is a steady tension that underlies the story. Will someone discover that the child isn’t hers? Will her parents come to claim her and take her back to that life of drudgery and no hope? Will she be able to use her newly discovered artistic talents?

I give Lisa Colozza Cocca kudos for her subtle feeding in of Becky’s backstory, for keeping the tension on her thread just right, so it didn’t break or loop the stitch, and for crafting her characters so they are well-rounded and never predictable.

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Laurie Schorno

Nice summer

Reviewed in the United States on 15 July 2014

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Too predictable. Nice summer read

Thelma Leff

A simplistic page turner. Very predictable. Incorrect use ...

Reviewed in the United States on 26 July 2016

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A simplistic page turner. Very predictable. Incorrect use of prepositions in the objective case really bothered me. Where was the author's editor?

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Providence by Lisa Colozza Cocca

Reviewed in the United States on 30 March 2014

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Wonderful! I have never read a book so fast. I couldn't put it down. She drew me in on the first page and made me care through to the last.

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