The characters were so well written, and you really felt for Lucy and her father, and I really liked Faron. Faron will be her partner in the search, and she will learn not only a lot about what her friend’s life really was, but she will learn more about herself and what she wants, as well as learn about Faron and maybe fall in love.Īs I mentioned above, I really enjoyed learning about the whole Amish community, at least as much was in this book.

She has to find her friend, or what happened to her. When even Alice’s mother seems to give up on finding her, Lucy refuses. It turns into a mystery, everyone searching for her, and there isn’t any trace of what happened other than a broken cell phone. Lucy and Alice have already been split up because Alice is drinking and doesn’t seem to like how Lucy is bringing her down.įaron helps Lucy get away from the police, and later on they still can’t find Alice, she’s disappeared. That night at the party, the police show up, and everyone runs. Faron is Amish as well, but he is shunned by his order. At one point along the way, Lucy hears Tobias talking to Faron and she gets to see a side of Tobias that is not one she trusts, one that she thinks Alice shouldn’t trust. Lucy goes, with Tobias and a guy named Faron who is driving the truck they use to get to the party. When Alice gets to town, she basically dares Lucy to go out to a party that night. Lucy is unsure herself because she wants to go to college. Because of how much more accepting the Florida order is, she also does not get a Rumspringa, although she must decide whether to be baptized, which will decide if she can stay with the order. While Lucy’s order is much more lenient, she still has a strict father. Not only that, but she has a boyfriend she is meeting there, Tobias. In fact she tells Lucy that she is going to run away. But from how Alice is behaving, it seems as if she will not be staying. Alice is 16, and it is time that she can have her Rumspringa, and also decide if she wants to stay with the religion, the community. Lucy’s best friend is one of the snowbirds. Every year during winter the northern Old Order Amish, who they call the “snowbirds” arrive in Florida and spend the winter there. They are allowed many things that the other Amish that are called the “Old Order” would never be okay with. The main character in the story is a girl named Lucy, who lives in Florida with a much less strict order of the Amish.

Of course I’d heard about Rumspringa, I mean there was some reality tv show about it at one time, right? I haven’t read much about the Amish, and this book really had a lot of interesting bits to it, and I learned some things I didn’t know.

Crissa-Jean Chappell is one of my favorite authors, I will read anything that she writes.

Snowbirds by Crissa-Jean Chappell