Meant to Be (24 page)

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the authors imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

MEANT TO BE
published by Multnomah Books
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and in association with the literary agency of Sara A. Fortenberry

© 2005 by Carlson Management Co., Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Carlson, Melody.

Meant to be: a novel/Melody Carlson.

p. cm. — (Diary of a teenage girl. Kim; bk. 2)

Summary: In spite of a newfound faith, sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson faces a dreary Christmas and New Year because her mother has been diagnosed with cancer.

eISBN: 978-0-307-56311-8

[1. Cancer—Fiction. 2. Korean Americans—Fiction. 3. Mothers—Fiction. 4. Christian life—Fiction. 5. Diaries—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.C2l6637Mea2005 [Fie]—dc22

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