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Name: Setting the pace
Author: Lauraine Snelling

Fourteen-year-old DJ seeks God's guidance about a riding school students's overt racism as well as about her mother's surprise announcement of plans to remarry.

First publish date: 1996

Authors: Lauraine Snelling

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