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Awakening
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Lily Dale: Book 1

Awakening (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Wendy Corsi Staub (Author) (edit contributors)

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Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they... read more

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  • Calla Delaney: The main character of the book. Is psychic. 17 years old.
  • Odelia Lauder: Calla's grandmother. Stephanie's mother.
  • Lisa Wilson: Calla's best friend since kindergarten.
  • Kevin Wilson: Lisa's older brother. Calla's ex-boyfriend.
  • Jacy Bly: Beautiful guy Calla's age. Lives across the way from Odelia. Soft-spoken. Walter is his foster father. Native American.
  • Evangeline Taggart: Lives next door to Odelia.
  • Stephanie Delaney: Calla's mother. Jeff's wife. Odelia's daughter.Twenty-three when she had Calla.
  • Ramona Taggart: Evangeline's aunt.
  • Elaine Riggs: A woman who visits Odelia to get a "reading"
  • Debra: Medium in Lily Dale.
  • Annie: Kevin's girlfriend after Calla.
  • Miriam: A ghost that inhabits the house Odelia owns.
  • Jeff Delaney: Calla's father. Stephanie's husband.
  • Blue Slayton: Good looking boy who lives in Lily Dale.
  • Darrin: A man Stephanie used to date.
  • Scott Delaney: Jeff's brother. Calla's uncle.
  • Lena Hoffman: Works at the cafe in Lily Dale.
  • Walter Darwin: Registered Medium in Lily Dale.
  • Aiyana: A ghost that only Calla can see.
  • Willow York: Lives in Lily Dale. Blue's ex-girlfriend. Still wants to be his girlfriend.
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving the world, when everyone around us cries.”
  • “There is no such thing as ‘dead,’ Calla. People who have departed their physical bodies on this earth are still with us. They never really leave us.”
    Odelia Lauder

First Sentence edit see section history

Seventeen years ago "Breathe, Stephenie. And focus on the lilacs, like they taught you in class. Come on..."

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue
Chapter 1

Glossary edit see section history

  • Psychic: A person apparently responsive to psychic forces.
  • medium: •pl., mediums. A person thought to have the power to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension. Also called psychics
  • clairvoyance: The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness.
  • Caul: •A portion of the amnion, especially when it covers the head of a fetus at birth. Also called pileus

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 4 in Lily Dale. (standard series)

Followed by Believing.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Wendy Corsi Staub (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Walker Publishing Company, Inc.
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8027-9843-5
Page Count: 228

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