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  <title><![CDATA[Elsie's Impossible Choice (Life of Faith®: Elsie Dinsmore Series, A)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Happiness seems illusive when nine-year-old Elsie Dinsmore faces danger at the hands of a jealous family member--and worse, the loss of her father's affection. Will she have the courage to choose between her beloved Papa and a life that promises only loneliness and grief?</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Elsie's Impossible Choice (Life of Faith&#174;: Elsie Dinsmore Series, A)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martha Finley]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 02:56:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 02:58:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second in a the series.  The writer struggles to enter a stride in the beginning and the reprinting has plenty of proofing errors, but that aside, it makes the reader think critically of his/her own convictions and how to &quot;Keep the the Lord's Day Holy&quot;.<br/>If you've read the first, there...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51461624">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 2nd book in the Elsie Dinsmore series has Elsie faced with a problem - she has to choose between obeying her father and obeying the commandments.  It is a wonderful book, and I especially recommend it to young girls - around 2nd grade and up.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 15 14:48:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 16 08:11:08 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elsie's distant family taunts and torrtures poor elsie with their words and actions of jelously. When her long lost father returns from Europe. Elsie is heartbroken to find that he does not love her too.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[any young girl]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ i really really liked it. she is very obebient.<br/><br/>love abby]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    The Elsie Dinsmore series are extremely well-written novels set in the 19th century, and follow the fictional Elsie, a rich plantation girl, from early childhood through adulthood.  They are inspiring and very beautiful to read.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 15:19:29 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read this book I feel like I'm building a better relationship with God myself. Elsie is a very strong girl and trusts God with all of her heart!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do recommend this book to everyone, BUT first you should read the first book to this series (this is the second book). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it when I was 6]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[AHH! Made me cry.]]></body>
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