Hope Girl

Wendy Dunham

Apr 2018 · Christian Audio · Narrated by Jorjeana Marie

About this audiobook

With the discovery of her birth father, 12-year-old River has definite thoughts about how her life should turn out--and that certainly does not include any of the challenges that keep popping up! It's not easy to decide if she should live with Gram, who has been her family for the past ten years, or with her father, who she's over-the-moon to have just met but knows little about. When River gets diagnosed with scoliosis, she fears it will impact her hopes and dreams. River decides to ask God for help. When River makes a new friend, Carlos, she realizes that having scoliosis isn't so bad when she learns what Carlos deals with every day. As this tender-sweet story unfolds, River learns to persevere and stay hopeful that soon she will be part of a real family. Yes, her dream does come true...but not in the way she had planned!

About the author

Wendy Dunham is an award winning author of two middle-grade novels, My Name Is River and its sequel, Hope Girl, as well as for the early-reader series, The Tales of Buttercup Grove. She is also the voice of Reagandoodle, in Reagandoodle and Little Buddy: The True Story of a Labradoodle and His Toddler Best Friend. When she's not writing, Wendy works as a registered therapist with children who have special needs. 
As a child Wendy was diagnosed with curvature of the spine (scoliosis), and wore a brace just like River.