Stealing Bradford

OTHER BOOKS BY MELODY CARLSON:

Carter House Girls series

Mixed Bags (Book One)

Girls of 622 Harbor View series

Project: Girl Power (Book One)

Project: Mystery Bus (Book Two)

Project: Rescue Chelsea (Book Three)

Project: Take Charge (Book Four)

Project: Raising Faith (Book Five)

Project: Run Away (Book Six)

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

Piercing Proverbs

By Design Series

Women’s Fiction

These Boots Weren’t Made for Walking

On This Day

An Irish Christmas

The Christmas Bus

Crystal Lies

Finding Alice

Three Days

Grace Chapel Inn Series including

Hidden History

Ready to Wed

Back Home Again

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Stealing Bradford

Copyright © 2008 by Melody Carlson

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ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-85658-0

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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

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