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. And when River is diagnosed with a condition that could impact her hopes and dreams and future, she feels overwhelmed and bewildered. That's when River asks God for help and decides to trust him with her dreams.

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!

This book has been graded for interest at 8-11 years.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Harvest House Publishers, U. S. .

Wendy Dunham is an award-winning inspirational children's and middle grade author, a registered therapist for children with special needs, and a blessed mama of two amazing grown-up kids. She is the author of two middle-grade novels: My Name Is River and its sequel, Hope Girl . She has a series of early readers titled Tales of Buttercup Grove. And in the Reagandoodle and Little Buddy series, Wendy writes as the voice of Reagandoodle. Please visit her website at wendydunhamauthor. com.