If I Should Die Before I Wake
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Now I lay me down to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.
Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in The Spectator [ citation needed ] on 8th March A later version printed in The New England Primer goes:. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, His Love to guard me through the night, And wake me in the morning's light. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. May the angels watch me through the night, and keep me in their blessed sight. Lord I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, thy angels watch me through the night, And keep me safe till morning's light.
Angels watch me through the night, And wake me with the morning light. Guide me through the starry night, Wake me when the sun shines bright. Guide me safely through the night, Wake me with the morning light. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. When in the morning light I wake, Show me the path of love to take.
Additional third verse If I should live another day I pray the Lord to guide my way.
In this book, Deanne decides to become a VolunTeen at the local hospital instead of spending her summer at the country club like her mother wants. Deanne becomes an active volunteer while at the same time developing a relationship with one of the patients. If you're familiar with Lurlene McDaniel's other books, the format of a typical teenager becoming involved with a terminally ill teen will sound familiar.
A Christian child's prayer is Christian prayer recited primarily by children that is typically short, If I should die before I wake, If I should live another day. Now I lay me down to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century. If I should die before I wake. I pray Thee If I should live for other days.
In my opinion, I felt like the plot was short and rushed, leaving little time to develop In this book, Deanne decides to become a VolunTeen at the local hospital instead of spending her summer at the country club like her mother wants. In my opinion, I felt like the plot was short and rushed, leaving little time to develop the characters.
This book was okay, not as good at some of her other books that I've read but still enjoyable. Dec 19, Kaitlyn rated it it was amazing.
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The main character is misunderstood at home and really just wants to help everyone and it's so sweet! I love the relationship she starts with this boy though and I cried so much when he died!!
Why A other great book by Lurlene. I read the whole book in one day and couldn't put the book down. Mar 14, Rachel Lang rated it it was ok. Good, but a bit to predictable and didn't give enough time to flesh out the characters. Mar 12, Kimberly rated it liked it Shelves: Now I know I said that I wouldn't be reading anymore books by this author but I couldn't help it. When I read it a few days ago I really needed a short book to pass the time.
At pages this book certainly fit the bill. As much as I like Lurlene's earlier works this one fell very short for me. I just couldn't connect to the char Now I know I said that I wouldn't be reading anymore books by this author but I couldn't help it. I just couldn't connect to the characters or the setting. The writing and the story in general seemed bery one dimensional to me and almost as though she didn't really put much thought or effort into this book which was disappointing since she's one of my favourite childhood authors. I wish the Deanne had been more personable and I really wanted to smack her mother because she didn't want her daughter to help people in the hospital.
Seriously, who wouldn't want their kids to be that compassionate? To me Deanne although I pitied her for how her mother treated her I just couldn't like. I also didn't like Matt the boy she met in the hospital that much either but I think that it's because the story was so rushed and the author left out a lot of details which I wish she would have put it.
Nov 16, Becky Tucker rated it it was ok Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is the story of a young girl who feels that she doesn't fit in to her mother's country club lifestyle. And so, in an attempt to do something on her own, she starts volunteering at the hospital where her dad works. She is a good volunteer and all the patients and workers love her.
She starts working with cancer patients and she eventually falls in love with one of them. She gets very attached to him and gets to know his family and everything and then he dies and she is devastated. She then s This is the story of a young girl who feels that she doesn't fit in to her mother's country club lifestyle.
She then stops going to the hospital until she goes back one day on a whim and realizes that she is mean to be there as she helps a young girl who is battling cancer fall asleep. This book sqeaked by with two stars for me. I was tempted to give it one. However, it was a typical junior high girl novel: Also, it did succeed in making me want to volunteer at a hospital, which I think was part of the motivation as the last page says that if you want to volunteer, you should contact your local hospital.
This book exceeded my expectations, being full of more than I ever expected. August Learn how and when to remove this template message. Also, it did succeed in making me want to volunteer at a hospital, which I think was part of the motivation as the last page says that if you want to volunteer, you should contact your local hospital. When she insults a Jew she later gets a past memory about a Jew. Inside the camp it shows all the ways of life most people have heard of, the struggle for survival, the fear of the gas chamber, illness and inner strength.
Utterly predictable, but kind of sweet none the less, this is a very young adult novel and I would recommend it to girls in junior high probably, but most likely not high school if I could help it. Oct 17, Ofa Fotu rated it did not like it Shelves: This was a very easy read. It had alot of sentimentality Honestly, I thought it was a bit heavy handed, but I think that it would be a good read for younger readers.
The main character is a nearly 15 year old girl.
It has themes of personal growth, personal improvement, service, fear, determination It was really sweet at the end. I don't think I would teach it in schools, because the characters are too flat. The main character starts out fat and ugly and transforms into a beautiful thin girl because she spent the summer serving at a hospital. Everyone else in the book even the RA of the hospital floor for cancer patients is described as beautiful and tall and thin with tinsel I wished they had used that word Dec 12, Emily Haggard added it.
May 20, Mary rated it it was ok. This book is the kind of extremely emotional story I avoid. It's a good story and very tragic and uplifting, but I've never done well with tear-jerkers. The story is of a girl who starts to work with terminally ill kids at the hospital. When she meets a boy with cancer who is around her age, well, you know how the stories go. She falls in love. It's very much from the perspective of a teenager. There are moments that make me think of a soap opera and others that make me think of a chick flick.
E This book is the kind of extremely emotional story I avoid. Even if it isn't the type of story I like, McDaniel does a good job at writing that kind of a book. Most likely teenage girls in their older teenage years will like this more than younger girls or boys in general Nov 17, Dakota rated it it was amazing. This good is about a girl who does not like what her mother is trying to make her. She does very well so she is sent to the cancer patient floor and soon befriends a boy named Matt who is sixteen years old.
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This book is very emotional and it did bring tears to my eye near the end. But I really did like this book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes to read books that make them bring out there emotions every once and a while. Thank you Lurlene McDaniel for writing this amazing book. Jun 14, Anna Borgholthaus rated it it was ok.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
I mean, it was enjoyable enough to read but just poor writing. I don't like how all of Lurlene McDaniel's books seem to emotionally manipulate readers. Instead of writing well, she disguises her lack of imagination with tragedy. Perhaps that's a bit harsh, and perhaps there's a place for these kinds of books in the world.