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Destiny And Faith's Summer Adventures (Book #2 in the Destiny And Faith series) by [Teddy O'Malley, Angie Dickens]

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Destiny And Faith's Summer Adventures (Book #2 in the Destiny And Faith series) Kindle Edition

by Teddy O'Malley (Author, Illustrator), Angie Dickens (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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It's summer!

Destiny and Faith come up with a great idea to keep busy during the summer. They try to get a job! They end up cleaning a dusty, possibly haunted, old attic, running a PURPLE lemonade stand, and most importantly, making a great new friend. Dustin happens to be Deaf, and Destiny and Faith put their knowledge of American Sign Language to the test! But can it help them land a job?

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“I can't believe we're doing this,” Faith whispered from behind me. We were walking down our street in the dark. “Tiny, how did you drag me into this?”
“Shh!” I hissed. “The ghosts will hear us if you talk.”
“Have I ever mentioned that I'm afraid of the dark?” Faith asked me, nudging my shoulder.
“Only a bazillion times! And that's just tonight,” I snapped, getting frustrated. “If you're going to be a fraidy cat you might as well go home, and let me do this alone.”

“No way,” Faith said, standing tall. “I'm not letting my baby sister walk around in dark haunted houses by herself.”
“You're a saint,” I said sarcastically.
“Obviously, I am. I'm putting aside my fears for you, aren't I?”
“Sh! Did you hear that?” I asked.
“Hear what?” Faith tried to hide behind me.
“Never mind. I think it was just a stray cat or something.” I turned my flashlight on and flicked it around, trying to check out the noise.
“You had a flashlight this whole time, and you're just now turning it on?” Faith whined.
“I didn't want anyone to see us,” I hissed at Faith. “Stay here.”
“What? No! Don't leave me here in the dark.” Faith clung to my jacket.
“Just stay behind this bush,” I instructed her.
“Fine, but if I see a ghost I'm leaving without you.”
I shrugged and started to head toward the house.
“You're taking the flashlight?” Faith asked.
I rolled my eyes, and I handed it to her.
“Thanks,” she whispered.
“Now I'm going,” I hissed. I walked slowly along the bushes and looked in Dustin's windows. There he was. Old Mr. Jenkins! Seeing him made me so nervous that I tripped over a twig, causing it to snap.
“Uh oh,” I said.

BOOKS IN THIS SERIES

#1 Destiny And Faith Go To Twincentric Academy
#2 Destiny And Faith's Summer Adventures
#3 Destiny And Faith Get Stuck In The Country

Reading age

5 - 9 years
Print length

61 pages
Language

English
Grade level

1 - 4
Publication date

April 3, 2014
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"A charming book full of diversity which is fun and educational! Even my slugs learnt something - and that doesn't happen often." - Elias Zapple, EliasZapple.com "This delightful story book for kids is entertaining and educational. The alphabet sign language chart at the end of the book is helpful and kids can actually practice it after they read the story. The illustrations make it more visual and give movement and life to the scenes and characters. " - Mamta Madhavan, Readersfavorite.com

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Faith and I are out of school for the summer, and we are eager to explore and seek new adventures! We'll start by checking out the new neighbors and their rickety old house. But what do a creepy old house, American Sign Language, and purple lemonade have in common? Come join us and find out! --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JH2QH04
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jourden Cleghorn; 1st edition (April 3, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 7490 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 61 pages

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Teddy O’Malley has written nine books in English for children. She enjoys writing about diverse characters and featuring a wide range of childhood experiences in her books. She has won the Reader’s Favorite Five Star seal for Cool Kids Wear Glasses, Destiny And Faith’s Summer Adventures, Destiny And Faith Get Stuck In The Country, and The Fairy’s Bubble Wand.

The “Destiny and Faith” book series features twins who use sign language to sign with their new best friend. They often meet unique characters together and learn more about the world through their adventures. A key theme of this series is learning through play and experience.

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P J LaRue

Friendship, tolerance, diversity and acceptance are learned in this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2014

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Destiny and Faith's Summer Adventures was quite fun to read. Ms. O’Malley’s characters are as real as children can be. She incorporated true children’s curiosity through the twins, Destiny and Faith, the need for friendship by adding a new kid on the block, Dustin who happens to be deaf, and a pair of snobbish girls, Jourdana and Jourdonna, as the antagonists.

Summer has begun and Destiny and Faith want to find a job, even though they are only eight years old. They attempt to clean a filthy attic, but are overcome with the spiders and spider webs. They go ghost hunting only to be scared away by the ghost, and they build a lemon stand even though they don’t have any lemons. But they finally get their job teaching another set of twins, Hope and Grace how to speak in American Sign Language so that they can be friends with Dustin, as well.

I loved this early reader chapter book. It teaches friendship, dealing with people who aren’t nice, and emphasizes tolerance of others and the need to include people who are different in one’s circle of friends. In addition to Dustin being deaf, Destiny and Faith are bi-racial. The author describes what they look like to introduce the topic. Her description of Destiny and Faith and their mom and dad is low-key and projects acceptance without being preachy. Visit her blog to learn about the real life, Hope, who is the inspiration for the bi-racial characters.

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Ann (Ana) Morris

So real and so fun! Add friendship and learning something new!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 29, 2016

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I love the realistic dialogue between Destiny and Faith and their "friends". I also love the attention spans and their active imaginations. I never outgrow imagination. A haunted house? A purple lemonade stand? I liked their meeting their new neighbor, who gave them the chance to use their American Sign Language (ASL), which they had learned at home. This is very possible. My own daughter taught her own twins baby sign language, and it was very effective. Communication is so important. So is including and accepting people who may be identifiably different in various ways from us. This book handled that with ease. Children of different race and abilities didn't even notice the differences and played with each other as equals. Adults can learn from them and enrich their own life experiences, too. Five laughs and five smiles for this book!

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Vanessa Vanney Thompson

A well organized story line book for children to enjoy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2014

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Destiny And Faith's Summer Adventures by author Teddy O'Malley was fun and educational as well.

This book was simple with illustrations but I found that simple was cool in this book. The twins had a summer filled of
adventures. I Liked chapters 2, 3, and 6 the best: "French in France", Sign Language", and "Haunted Houses". I like the
educational tools mixed into adventure. This book was well written and awesome.

Good job!

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Encouraging Story.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2015

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LOVE this fun, mystery/adventure! If you give a kid an idea...
"You see, we started out with the lemonade stand idea, except we didn't have any lemonade, so we substituted oranges. But all the work building this stand made us hungry, so we ate the oranges and we substituted grape juice, and voila! Purple lemonade," explained Destiny. The story shows that ALL kinds of kids enjoy the same things.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2014

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My son consumes books. Or, I should say we consume them together – 3 to 5 a day. So he knows a good one when he sees it. He loved Destiny And Faith's Summer Adventures by Teddy O'Malley and enjoyed the great illustrations. He’s 6-1/2. This was a fun story with a nice message. Highly recommended. Five stars.

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treadmill reader

loved the way the book wove sign language into the story and plot

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2014

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When I was a kid my sister and I learned semaphore and sign language and incorporated it in our games and communication. This book brought back happy memories of those times.

This is a nice early reader with lots of humor and fun characterization. The thumb nail sketches break up the text just enough to keep an emerging reader engaged.

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Al-Khemet Book Club

DESTINY DESTINY DESTINY, FAITH OH FATH OH FAITH :)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2014

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Teddy O'Malley is a great writer of childrens fiction. The adventures of Destiny and Faith will highly stimulate your kids imagination and have them excited to read more long after the entertaining pages have end. A very good read.

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Twins aren't kind

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2017

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A very weak story, and sadly the twins aren't even kind to each other. Could have been SO much better

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Kinsman Bookworm Gang

Fun adventures for these awesome twins!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 6, 2014

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I really enjoyed reading this short chapter book, and the charming illustrations help break the text up into "bite size" chunks manageable for younger readers.

Kids will easily identify with the twins, and with there summer holiday plans. Who doesn't want a job to earn a bit of extra pocket money? In exploring their options, we are taken on an amusing romp through the girls' neighbourhood - tackling snobbish school "friends", massive spiders, ghostly sightings, oh, and making a new friend along the way!

The tale is told with insightful humour throughout, and I love the inclusion of a young deaf boy as the twins' new friend. Having the twins communicating with him in sign language should be helpful in encouraging understanding between children with "differences". The end of the book also includes a summary of basic sign language hand positions, which I'm sure lots of young children will be curious about, and will, I hope, feel inspired to want to try out after reading the book.

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Mary Josefina Cade

Summer fun in the school holidays

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 24, 2014

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The adorable twins featured on the cover of 'Destiny and Faith's Summer Adventures' look very much like a little girl close to my own heart. Having enjoyed Teddy O'Malley's previous book* with her and her brother, how could I resist this one? Destiny, nicknamed Tiny, is the book's very cute and funny narrator. The children I read it with have also enjoyed setting up a shop, so could fully empathise with Tiny and Faith's efforts. We were all fascinated by the equipment needed for ghost hunting and by the actual search itself.

It's also great that Teddy O'Malley has featured a deaf child and sign language in her story. Life can be difficult for kids who have anything the least bit different about their physical abilities or appearance. 'Summer Adventure' has a multiracial group of kids, plus a ghost. What more could you ask? A must read for the upcoming summer holidays.

*Destiny and Faith Go To Twincentric Academy!

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Zapple

Sign o' the Times

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 4, 2014

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A charming book full of diversity which is fun and educational! Even my slugs learnt something - and that doesn't happen often. Destiny and Faith need summer jobs and they soon get the most enjoyable job of all - cleaning a neighbour's attic! This isn't just any old attic as the attic is inside a haunted house! (No more exclamation marks!) They also become friends with the occupants, specifically a deaf boy called Dustin and we get to experience sign language - something all children should become familiar with. My slugs have now taken it up and become fairly proficient. There's even a page at the back listing the sign language alphabet.

Just one thing, ghost... garlic? Very amusing! (You'll have to read it).

Must buy!

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Celia Carlile

Perfect for young readers.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 24, 2015

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This is a beautifully written book for young children who are just moving away from picture books. Tiny and Faith are twin eight year olds who are full of personality. They are fascinated to discover that a family has moved into the haunted house nearby and they become friends with Dustin, the deaf boy who lives there. It's quite funny and with short, gripping chapters it's a great read.

Tony

A scary little tale

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 26, 2014

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Full of fun and fear.

I nice little story with plenty to keep children occupied.

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