The Carter House girls are divided when two of them go after the same guy. Rhiannon and Taylor are at serious odds, and before it's over several girls get hurt.
OTHER BOOKS BY MELODY CARLSON:
Carter House Girls series
Girls of 622 Harbor View series
Books for Teens
The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor Series
Diary of a Teenage Girl Series
TrueColors Series
Notes from a Spinning Planet Series
Degrees Series
By Design Series
Women’s Fiction
The Christmas Bus
Grace Chapel Inn Series including
Ready to Wed
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Copyright © 2008 by Melody Carlson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carlson, Melody.
Stealing bradford / by Melody Carlson.
p. cm.—(Carter House girls; bk. 2)
Summary: DJ’s efforts to make sense of Christianity, prayer, and the Bible only seem to make it harder for her to deal with the inability of the girls in her grandmother’s boardinghouse to get along, especially after Taylor begins flirting with Rhiannon’s boyfriend.
ISBN 978-0-310-71489-7 (softcover)
[1. Christian life—Fiction 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction.
3. Boardinghouses—Fiction. 4. Grandmothers—Fiction 5. High schools—Fiction
6. Schools—Fiction 7. Conduct of life—Fiction 8. Connecticut—Fiction] I. Title.
PZ7.C216637Ste 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2008001421
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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“I’M SORRY, BUT MY CAR’S just not big enough for
“And I’ve already reserved my ride with Eliza,” said Taylor a bit too smugly. She too was perfection—at least on the surface. But DJ was well aware that looks can be deceiving.
Eliza smiled at DJ now. “And I told Kriti she could ride with me too…which only leaves room for one more.” Eliza and DJ hadn’t really spoken since last night when they’d made their splashy entrance into Harry’s beach-house party together. A few hours and a lifetime later, DJ had left the party and driven all the girls (except Taylor and Eliza who weren’t ready to go) back to the Carter House in her grandmother’s car. They barely made it home before curfew, and DJ felt certain that the party-hardy girls, Taylor and Eliza, got back quite a bit later than that. Although, as far as DJ knew, Mrs. Carter hadn’t said a word.
Naturally, this double standard aggravated DJ. Not that it was unexpected since her grandmother clearly favored those two, but it did seem a bad omen for the year ahead. Still, DJ was determined not to complain. Because today was not only the first day of school, it was also the first day following DJ’s amazing life-changing episode on the beach last night. And she didn’t want to blow it by getting mad.
“School’s not that far away,” pointed out Rhiannon. “I don’t mind walking. That’s how I used to get there.”
