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Lucy Doesn't Wear Pink

by Nancy N. Rue

Questions of faith, family, and identity

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Questions of faith, family, and identity

After an accident kills Lucy’s mother and leaves her father blind, eleven-year-old Lucy faces a changed home life alongside questions about God and what it means to grow up. The arrival of housekeeper Inez and her granddaughter Mora brings two contrasting ideas of girlhood into the household. Their shared study of the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi provides a point of connection within a story that brings Christian faith, family change, and differing expectations of femininity together.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 9–12 interested in Christian fiction and questions of faith.
  • Readers drawn to stories about family changes and girls with contrasting personalities.
  • Young readers interested in biblical stories woven into contemporary family fiction.

Themes

Christian faith and doubtFamily change and lossGirlhood and expectationsFriendship across differences

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Book overview

 

Lucy is a feisty, precocious tomboy who questions everything--including God. Understandably, especially after an accident killed her mother, blinded her father, and turned her life upside down. It will take a strong but gentle housekeeper--who insists on Bible study along with homework--to show Lucy that there are many ways to become the woman God intends her to be.

 

Lucy's bossy, career-minded Aunt Karen thinks eleven-year-old Lucy needs a woman's influence. Enter Inez--a housekeeper with a will as strong as Lucy's--and her granddaughter Mora, a girly-girl who is Lucy's polar opposite. Will the girls ever find common ground? Inez just might have the answers when she teaches them the story of Ruth and Naomi.

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