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Carrie: Heart of Courage

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This book is really great! I've read all 4 of the books, and this is my favorite. It's about this shy girl,Carrie, who's always scared, sort of like chuckie on the rugrats. She meets this guy, and really likes him. His name is John Stapleton. All of Carrie's family is brave, her mom snuck on a boat, and followed the gold rush, just for the man she loved. This guy, John Stapleton, cares about other people,like the poor. But Carrie's friend, Jessica, who is VERY pretty, also likes John. This is the story of how carrie finds out who she is, and the story tells her life, and what happened to Carrie...
A great book, you have to read it!

Timid sixteen-year-old Carrie Kelly feels as though she lives in the shadows of her brave, independent, and courageous ancestors. She knows she'll never be as brave as her mother Stephanie, who found her true love after travelling to California during the Gold Rush. Carrie does fall in love, with handsome John Stapleton. But when Carrie's outgoing friend Jessica falls for John as well, Carrie knows she doesn't have a chance with him. But when the devestating fire of 1871 rages across Chicago, Carrie is separated from her parents. If she is going to survive and find her family again, she must reach within herself to find untapped depths of courage and strength that she never knew she had. Althought I wish that the Hearts and Dreams series could have continued beyond this book, I have no complaits about the book itself. It showed that you never know your own strength until you are tested, as evident in Carrie. I highly reccomend this to teens who like historical romances.

This book was one of the most interesting books that I've ever read. I absolutely love it. I have read it 3 times. If you liked the other books in this series, you'll love this book! Buy and read it today! I can't wait until the next book in the series comes out!

Carrie Kelly is always afraid as it seems. She isn't at all like the Kelly women that have come before her. They were brave and daring, unlike her. Her Great-Grandma Katherine Kelly saved a Patriot spy and dressed up as a boy to help with the War of Independence. Her Grandma Charlotte was kidnapped in the war of 1812 when she was trying to bring information to the President. Her Mother Stephanie followed the man she loved on a boat all the way to California during the gold rush. But Carrie doesn't feel she'll be anything like them. She's realized that her friend Jessica was just using her and then one day she speaks what she truly feels. But can Carrie keep this little ounce of bravery through the Chicago Fire? And can she get the man she loves?

This was the best book! I've read it three times and the ending six! Carrie is the type of person who I would want to be, yet she struggles to find herself and to live up to her family name. Yet, through her path to self discovery, she realizes she hasn't lost the love she thought that she had.

This is a great book! I read it in one day, and spent the next day re-reading it.
This story centers around Carrie, who is the daughter of Stephanie, the protaginist of the third novel in the series (by the way, Stepanie's story is also fantastic. If you read Carrie first, please read Stephanie too; you won't regret it, I promise)Carrie can't understand why she is so completely different from all of the other women in her family...this book is about her making her own way, and learning to be happy with herself in the process. along the way, she meets the love of her life...

THis was my second favorite book in the Hearts and Dreams series. I loved the character Carrie ! She was strong once she knew her own strenth and she could do anything! I hope that Ms. Cameron will write a new book for this wonderful series!I love reading historical romanaces and hope she will start a new series after she has completed the "Hearts and Dreams" !

Carrie can't believe she's a Kelly. All the other Kellys before her - her great-grandmother, Katherine, who saved a Patriot, her grandmother, Charlotte, who survived being kidnapped in the War of 1812, and her mother, Stephanie, who followed the California Gold Rush - were brave and daring. And Carrie's timid and afraid. But when she must fight for survival during the Chicago Fire, Carrie discovers she's a lot braver then she thought.