Awakening (2007) (edit title/settings)

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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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• “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

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Tampa, Florida
• Lily Dale, New York

Organizations edit see section history

• Lily Dale Assembly in Lily Dale, New York: Add a description of this organization.

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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

Followed by Believing.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Wendy Corsi Staub (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › Multigenerational › Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Author's Website
• Dr. Lauren Thibodeau
• Lily Dale Assembly

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