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Cedar River Daydreams #7

Silent Tears No More

Lexi Leighton's friend Binky is interested in a guy at school but feels out of it. Her clothes, her hair everything seems out of style. The perfect solution seems to be a babysitting job that will allow her to get a new wardrobe. Everything begins to fall into place at just the right time! There's just one something is radically wrong with the rich nine-year -old girl Binky is caring for. Though outwardly perfect, Binky finds Nicole to be sullen, overly shy, and forced to act like an adult. Then Binky makes a terrible discovery. Binky must decide whether she has the courage or the right to intervene in Nicole's life. What began as a fun job becomes the scariest reality Binky has ever faced!

141 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1989

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Judy Baer

106 books127 followers
aka Judy Kaye

Judy Baer was born and grew up on a farm on the prairies of North Dakota, USA. An only child, she spent most of her days with imaginary people-either those she read about or those she made up in her head. Her most ambitious conjuring did not succeed, however. She kept a clean stall with hay and oats for the horse she imagined would come but unfortunately, it never did. As an adult, however, she managed to make that dream come true and raised foundation quarter horses and buffalo for some years. A voracious reader, Judy learned to read with comic books, anything from Little Lulu and Superman to the Rawhide Kid. She sold her first story for $10.00 to a farm magazine. She still has the $10.00.

She graduated from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota with a major in English and education and a minor in religion. At the time, she was simply studying what interested her, but now realizes that she was educating herself for her future career as an inspirational christian romance writer.

Judy wanted to write for Harlequin even in high school but it wasn't until her youngest child learned to say "No" that she realized that she'd better consider a second career to fall back on when mothering was done. Her first book was written with her little girl on her lap. Judy would type a few words, say "Now, Jennifer," at which time her daughter would hit the space bar before Judy continued typing. It wasn't the fastest way to work, but it offered a lot of mother-daughter time together. An over-achiever, she's written 71 books for various publishers. The mother of two and step-mother of three, she now has lots of family to enjoy.

In 2001, she went back to school and became a certified professional life coach. Currently she is working on her Master's in Human Development in the areas of writing, coaching and spirituality and writing inspirational Chick Lit which, she says, is the most fun she's ever had writing.

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279 reviews7 followers
February 22, 2019
I really like how emotional abuse is addressed. I can’t believe Nicole’s father would say those horrible things to her, and she’s just 9. However, I think I’ll read the next Cedar River Daydreams book instead.
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1,617 reviews9 followers
October 22, 2024
This story in the series deals with emotional abuse and the struggle to see it and making decisions on reporting child abuse. I appreciate that this series for teens was always willing to tackle tough issues.
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468 reviews3 followers
May 31, 2020
no real resolution to the conflict...
Profile Image for Laura.
883 reviews16 followers
March 30, 2011
I am continually amazed at the tough issues the books in this series tackles. This book is about emotional abuse.
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