An Amish Schoolroom: Three Stories

by Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller, Shelley Shepard Gray

Overview

Three charming stories of new school years and new romance.

A Class for Laurel by Amy Clipston

Adventurous Laurel Weaver leaves Pennsylvania to answer a newspaper ad for a teaching position in Colorado. She stays with handsome Glen Troyer’s family, and they become close. However, she never intended to stay in Colorado, and his family worries Glen may choose to follow her back to Pennsylvania or be left with a broken heart. Now she can’t bear to think of leaving Glen and her beloved students, but she’s beginning to feel like she’s out of options. Will Laurel and Glen push through the obstacles and fight for love?

A Lesson on Love by Kathleen Fuller

Priscilla Helmuth left her Amish community twelve years ago to pursue her dream of being a country singer, but she’s missed her faith and her family. Now, she’s moving to Birch Creek to be a schoolteacher. Micah Wagler recently moved there as well to put the past behind him. As the community comes together to build a new schoolhouse, Priscilla and Micah are thrown together. They bond over their love of music, but soon it appears that Priscilla’s dreams of fame just might be coming true. She has to give up something, and Micah worries that it will be their faith . . . and his heart.

Wendy’s Twenty Reasons by Shelley Shepard Gray

Wendy Schwartz is used to people underestimating her, but she’s sure she can be a great teacher. Unfortunately, it’s a disaster not long after she starts, and soon her job is in jeopardy. To make matters more complicated, she worries that she’s falling for the son of the older couple she’s boarding with. Lewis Weaver knows he shouldn’t have a romantic relationship with a tenant, but he can’t help but be drawn to Wendy. When a dangerous ice storm traps Wendy in the schoolroom with her students, uncomfortable truths will have to be faced by the town that just might change the future for everyone.

• Sweet Amish novellas with happily-ever-afters
• Book length: 75,000 words
• Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310365822
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	441,021
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Amy Clipston is an award-winning bestselling author and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She's sold more than one million books, and her fiction writing "career" began in elementary school when she and a close friend wrote and shared silly stories. She has a degree in communications from Virginia Wesleyan University and is a member of the Authors Guild, American Christian Fiction Writers, and Romance Writers of America. Amy works full-time for the City of Charlotte, NC, and lives in North Carolina with her husband, two sons, mother, and four spoiled rotten cats. Visit her online at Amy Clipston.com; Facebook: @Amy Clipston Books; Twitter: @Amy Clipston; Instagram: @amy_clipston; Book Bub: @Amy Clipston.

With over two million copies sold, Kathleen Fuller is the USA TODAY bestselling author of several bestselling novels, including the Hearts of Middlefield novels, the Middlefield Family novels, the Amish of Birch Creek series, and the Amish Letters series as well as a middle-grade Amish series, the Mysteries of Middlefield. Visit her online at Kathleen Fuller.com; Instagram: @kf_booksandhooks; Facebook: @Writer Kathleen Fuller; Twitter: @The Kat Jam.

Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time HOLT Medallion winner. She lives in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town's bike trail. Find Shelley on her website: Shelley Shepard Gray.com; on Facebook: Shelley Shepard Gray; Twitter: @Shelley SGray.

Editorial Reviews

05/24/2021

Clipston (The Bake Shop), Fuller (Treasuring Emma), and Gray (An Amish Surprise) deliver three wholesome romances about Amish teachers. In Clipston’s “A Class for Laurel,” Laurel Weaver travels from Pennsylvania to a small community in Colorado to become a schoolteacher. She rents a cottage and meets the owners’ handsome son, Glen. As the two develop a friendship, their mutual attraction grows, much to the consternation of Glen’s family, who fear he will leave home. Fuller’s “A Lesson on Love” centers on 35-year-old Priscilla, who returns to her Amish roots to become a teacher after failing to make it as a country singer in Nashville. She meets Micah, a man 10 years her junior who also loves music. They must confront feelings about their age difference as well as opinions of community members if they are to find their way together. In Gray’s “Wendy’s Twenty Reasons,” perfectionist Wendy Schwartz tries her best to manage a schoolroom of rowdy children while struggling to live up to her predecessor’s reputation. She also falls for Lewis, the son of the family with whom she is renting a room, and must open up to find love. This sweet anthology will charm Amish fiction fans. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

These are all cute stories that romance and Amish fans will enjoy and will be great fun for fans of the authors.

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel