Seventeen Wishes (The Christy Miller Series #9) [Paperback]

Robin Jones Gunn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

Christy is ready for a change of scenery, a change in friendships, and a change of heart. But she never knew all this reshuffling would prepare her to make-Seventeen Wishes

Working as a camp counselor is not exactly how Christy Miller envisioned she would be spending part of her summer. But as the week draws closer, Christy begins to realize all the wonderful possibilities that could come from it: meeting a handsome counselor, long walks in the woods, splashing in the sun-toasted lake with newfound friends.

But before long Christy is up to her ears with kids that won't obey her, camp rules to remember, and an embarrassing incident that makes her the camp joke. And after she debates giving her heart to the camp counselor, a moonlight picnic in a canoe leads Christy to make some decisions about her future and trust that God is in control and knows what's best for her. What will she be wishing as she blows out the candles on her birthday cake?

OVER ONE MILLION SOLD IN-The Christy Miller Series

Get acquainted with Christy's friend Sierra by reading all twelve books in the Sierra Jensen Series, also by Robin Jones Gunn.

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About the Author

Robin Jones Gunn has a passion for communicating God's love to young hearts. She began writing story books for toddlers when her children were little. Her husband, Ross, has been a youth minister for over twenty years. While on a camping trip with teens from their youth group, Robin found some of the girls hiding away in their tent reading a stack of novels they'd brought with them from the library.

Curious as to what could keep these girls away from the sun, surf and guys, Robin borrowed three of their books. As she read them, her heart broke. They were not the kinds of stories these girls should be reading! After the camping trip Robin went to her Bible Bookstore and bought every book she could find that she thought would be interesting for the girls and have a good influence on them. The teens read all the books in a week and asked for more.

"There aren't any more," Robin told them. "That was all I could find." The teens challenged Robin by saying, "Then you write some for us. We'll even tell you what to write!"

Each week Robin would take a chapter and read it to her Sunday School class. And each week the teens would rip it apart, telling her how to rewrite the story. It took two years to complete Summer Promise, the first book in the CHRISTY MILLER series which was released in 1988. The twelve book series has sold over a million copies worldwide. Together with the SIERRA JENSEN SERIES, her books have won the hearts of thousands of girls.

A prolific writer, Robin has authored countless books and articles Many of her books have appeared on the Christian Bestsellers List. She has won the Evangelical Press Association Award for articles, the Mt. Hermon Pacesetter Award, the Lucille Gardner Poetry Scholarship, and the Sherwood E. Wirt Award. size : 5.2 x 7.4

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Focus on the Family (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561797308
• ISBN-13: 978-1561797301
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,054,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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You are warmly invited to visit Robin's website at www.robingunn.com. Be sure to sign up for the Robin's Nest Newsletter and have a browse in the Online Shop.

Over the past 25 years Robin has written 70 books with over 4 million copies sold.

She started writing for teens when the girls in her church youth group challenged her to write stories for them. It took 2 years and 10 rejections before the first Christy Miller novel was published in 1988. Since then the tales of these Forever Friends have continued. The Christy Miller series was followed by the Sierra Jensen series, Christy and Todd the College Years and the Katie Weldon series.

As Robin's readers grew older they asked for more stories about characters their age. The 8 book Glenbrooke series was launched followed by the Sisterchicks(R) series and a variety of standalone destination novels including "Under a Maui Moon" and "Canary Island Song".

Join Robin Jones Gunn on her facebook public figure page where she frequently posts updates on her latest travel or writing adventure.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seventeen Wishes, April 19, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Seventeen Wishes (The Christy Miller Series #9) (Paperback)

In Seventeen Wishes Christy Miller goes through a lot of hard ships and has to make many decisions and always has to turn to God for help. Christy Miller is seventeen years old and has to go to a summer camp and be a counselor for a bunch of wild fifth grade girls. While Christy is there she meets a really cute boy, Jaeson, which she tries to be around the whole time, but through this there is Todd. Todd is a boy that she had met on Newport Beach a couple of years before. She had really liked him, but their relation had gone nowhere. They were just really good friends.

My favorite part of the book was when Aunt Marti had a surprise birthday party for her and all her beach friends and everyone she had met was there. Then she made seventeen wishes. "Christy silently made seventeen wishes. And all of them started with Todd" (Gunn, 151).

I think this book is similar to my life in many different ways. One way it is similar to my life is that Christy is a teenage girl going through many hard times and has to make difficult decisions. Christy is always facing things that any teenage girl would face. I also think this is similar to my life because when she goes through those kinds of hard ships she always turns to God for help. When she is having trouble then she will pray about it and ask God for help and guidance. I do that too when I don't know what decision to make I turn to my family, friends, and God for help just like Christy. "At this moment, Christy knew His [God] forever peace (Gunn, 151).

While I was reading this book I saw some things that Robin Jones Gunn uses in her writing that I think is a very good idea to use in mine. When Gunn writes she puts Christy's thoughts in the story whenever she is thinking something. I like that a lot because I think it really shows the reader what Christy is really thinking. Gunn puts what Christy is thinking like someone is talking, but she doesn't put the thought in quotations, she just put it in Italics. I really like that a lot about her writing that she does in the Christy Miller Series. "I'm glad some things don't change. I wish I could be this age, on the beach, with these friends, for the next fifty years. I don't want things to change. Ever" (Gunn, 150).

I think this book is a lot about Christy and mostly about the hardships that she goes through and the decisions that she has to make. I think Seventeen Wishes is mainly for teenage girls so that they can realize that every teenage girl is going to go through the same hardships and decisions that they have to. I think the book is also a lot about Christy and her friends. The book is a lot about Todd and Jaeson, the boy she met at camp, and that decisions she has to make with them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A romance., May 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Seventeen Wishes (The Christy Miller Series, Book 9) (Paperback)

a brilliant book , which includes God. A book every teen should read. It expresses what every camp romance is about . Short but sweet.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Seventeen Wishes (Christy Miller), March 15, 2005

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Em. T.Y. "Em" (China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seventeen Wishes (The Christy Miller Series #9) (Paperback)

I just recently read this book and i think it is just o.k. One reason i'm not exactly the biggest fan of this book is because some of the information in it is not accurate. For an example the part about Stephanie's past. In Seventeen Wishes it was said that Stephanie's parents had to leave China imediately because they would have to abort their second child. That is however wrong because first of all in China it is not required to abort the second child. There is an option of paying a fee for having another child. Also in the more rural parts of China the rule is not enforced as much. Another option is that they can have the child of there is four years in between each children, or if the parents have no parents of their own still living. Another thing i have found not accurate in this part of the book is that it said that Christianity has to be practiced in and underground church. That is ridiculously wrong. I am a Christian and i am a Chinese born in America. I have recently moved here to China and I go to church freely. My gradparents went to church when they were young too. So, I don't this that it's possible that at the time this book was written that anything such as not being allowed to go to church is true. I don't know where the author got this information. To me this is quite offensive because to all the people that have read this book, there would be a wrong impression left on China and it's culture. I hope to the people who read this review (which i don't believe would be many) will realize that this is not quite accurate. I hope that in the future Ms. Robin Jones Gunn completely understands the information before putting it into a book.