About the Author
JOYCE MAGNIN is the author of five novels, including the popular and quirky Bright’.s Pond Series and the middle-grade novel Carrying Mason. She is a frequent conference speaker and writing instructor. Joyce lives in Pennsylvania with her son, Adam, and their crazy cat, Mango, who likes to eat nachos.
Acclaim for Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus
Nobody writes characters like Joyce Magnin, and Harriet Beamer does not disappoint. A story that’s all heart; you’ll be cheering Harriet on with every page.
JENNY B. JONES, award-winning author of Save the Date and There You’ll Find Me
Absolutely delightful! There’s surely a bit of Harriet Beamer in all of us — that mixture of trepidation but desire for adventure, and a relishing of God’s pleasure in becoming all He’s created us to be. I’d barely swiped away my tears before breaking into new peals of laughter. Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus is Joyce Magnin’s best yet.
CATHY GOHLKE, award-winning author of Promise Me This
If you want to feel God’s pleasure, take this delightfully unpredictable journey with Harriet Beamer and the unrivalled Queen of Quirk, Joyce Magnin. I know of no other author who can bring the truth of the Gospel so close to earth and yet lift the reader so high. Ya gotta get on this bus.
NANCY RUE, Christy Award-winning author of The Reluctant Prophet
You’ll love Joyce Magnin’s tale of a grandmother’s unconventional cross-country trip toward family togetherness.
RICHARD L. MABRY, MD, author of the Prescription for Trouble Series
Grab your toothbrush and pack extra jammies — you’re in for quite a ride! Harriet Beamer rocks.
REBECCA PRICE JANNEY, author of nineteen books, including On a Steed of Iron
Harriet Beamer’s adventure sparks that longing in all of us to who, as Thoreau said, when it’s time to die, don’t want to discover that we have never truly lived. I fell in love with Harriet when she decided that money, a cell phone, and God were all she needed for her journey. And what she comes to learn in her travels is a lesson for life—that being who God intended us to be can bless others beyond measure.
CHRISTA ALLAN, author of Love Finds You in New Orleans, Edge of Grace, and Walking on Broken Glass
Also by Joyce Magnin
Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus
THE BRIGHT’S POND SERIES
The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow
Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise
Griselda Takes Flight
Blame It on the Mistletoe
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
Carrying Mason
Cake
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Harriet Beamer Strikes Gold
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Magnin, Joyce.
Harriet Beamer strikes gold / Joyce Magnin.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-310-33358-6 (trade paper)
I. Title.
PS3601.L447H36 2013
813’.6—dc23
2013006313
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