![]() ![]() There, Lucy meets Faron, an ex-Amish who has been shunned, and loses track of Alice. Lucy, tired of doing laundry, helping her dad build furniture, and burning dinner all the time, agrees to sneak out with Alice to a Rumspringa party. Lucy's best friend Alice is an Old Order Amish and on her Rumspringa. As far as unique plots go, Snowbirds was awesome.Īs someone who grew up hearing stories about my dad's childhood in a Mennonite community, I was already familiar with some things (I know Mennonites play a lot of volleyball, lol), but I learned new information, too - like "Rumspringa" is a time when Amish teenagers are allowed to do whatever they want - party, drink alcohol, wear "English" clothes, and hook up with other Amish teens on Rumspringa. So you can imagine how excited I was when I learned this book was about a girl living in an Amish-Mennonite community in Florida. ![]() I just love when young adult books decide to focus on less popular ideas, when they aren't following the same trend as every teen fantasy novel trying to be the next Throne of Glass. I grabbed the book off the library shelf and ran to the checkout counter (well, as much as you can run in a library, anyway). After reading only a few words from the inside of the dust jacket, my eyes were popping out of my head. ![]() The summary of Snowbirds immediately had me hooked. Maybe I’d dress like that, if I lived in their world. ![]() She’s got a million rubber bracelets stacked up her arms and rainbow streaks in her hair. ![]()
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