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    Project: Take Charge
    Project: Take Charge
    Project: Take Charge
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    Project: Take Charge

    By Melody Carlson

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    Written by bestselling author melody carlson. Meet Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily. They all live in the trailer park at 622 Harbor View in tiny Boscoe Bay, Oregon. Proximity made them friends, but a desire to make the world a better place—and a willingness to work at it—keeps them together. In the first book of this new series, Project: Girl Power,bullies knock Emily from her bike on her way home from school, so the girls start walking together because there’s safety in numbers. With help from other people in the park, they set out to beautify Harbor View. In book two, Project: Mystery Bus, the girls begin summer by working to clean and restore their bus to use as a clubhouse. And thus begins the Rainbow Club. In book three, Project: Rescue Chelsea, Carlie makes a new friend. Chelsea Landers lives in a mansion and isn’t always very kind. Carlie would like a best friend, but will Chelsea fit in with her other friends? In book four, Project: Take Charge, the girls decide to take action when they find out their town’s only city park has been vandalized and may soon be turned into a parking lot. MELODY CARLSON In sixth grade, Melody Carlson helped start a school newspaper called The BuccaNews (her school’s mascot was a Buccaneer—argh!). As editor of this paper, she wrote most of the material herself, creating goofy phony bylines to hide the fact that the school newspaper was mostly a one-“man” show. She lives in Sisters, OR. Visit her at www.MelodyCarlson.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateAug 30, 2009
    ISBN9780310856108
    Project: Take Charge
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    Melody Carlson

    Melody Carlson has written more than 200 books for teens, women, and children. Before publishing, Melody traveled around the world, volunteered in teen ministry, taught preschool, raised two sons, and worked briefly in interior design and later in international adoption. "I think real-life experiences inspire the best fiction," she says. Her wide variety of books seems to prove this theory.

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      Project - Melody Carlson

      Other books in the growing Faithgirlz!™ series

      The Faithgirlz!™ Bible

      NIV Faithgirlz!™ Backpack Bible

      My Faithgirlz!™ Journal

      Introducing a new Faithgirlz!™ series from Melody Carlson:

      Girls of 622 Harbor View

      Project: Girl Power (Book One)

      Project: Mystery Bus (Book Two)

      Project: Rescue Chelsea (Book Three)

      Other books by Melody Carlson:

      Diary of a Teenage Girl Series

      TrueColors Series

      Degrees Series

      Piercing Proverbs

      ByDesign Series Nonfiction

      Check out www.faithgirlz.com

      ZONDERVAN

      Project: Take Charge

      Copyright © 2007 by Melody Carlson

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-85610-8

      Requests for information should be addressed to:

      Zonderkidz, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Carlson, Melody.

      Project, take charge / by Melody Carlson.

      p. cm.—(Girls of 622 Harbor View; bk. 4)

      Summary: When vandals trash McPhearson Park, Amy leads the way as she, Morgan, Carlie, Emily, and Chelsea, the newest club member, make it their project to save the spot from being turned into a parking lot and restore it to a place of beauty and fun.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-310-71189-6 (softcover: alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-310-71189-4 (softcover: alk. paper) [1. Parks—Fiction. 2. Environmental protection—

      Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Christian life—Fiction. 5. Oregon—Fiction.] I. Title.

      PZ7.C216637Pt 2007

      [Fic]—dc22

      2006024027

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan

      Editor: Barbara Scott

      Art direction and design: Merit Alderink

      Interior composition: Christine Orejuela-Winkelman

      So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen.

      For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

      —2 Corinthians 4:18

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      About the Publisher

      Share Your Thoughts

      chapter one

      Did you guys hear the latest news? asked Amy as soon as she entered the clubhouse, an old parked bus the girls had fixed up this past summer, to find her four friends already there and waiting for her.

      You mean that Amy Ngo is actually late for the first time in her life? teased Carlie as she pointed to her watch. I’m sorry, she told them. My mother and I were having … uh … a little discussion.

      Don’t you mean more like an argument? asked Morgan. Then she winked at Amy. Sorry, but I couldn’t help overhearing you guys on my way over here. Man, I had no idea your sweet little mom could yell like that.

      Amy rolled her eyes. Yes, well, my mother seems to have gotten the idea that I’m spoiled.

      Goodness, said Emily with wide blue eyes. Where would she get an idea like that? The other girls laughed.

      Thanks a lot! Amy frowned at the four of them.

      Hey, said Chelsea, don’t feel too bad. These guys think I’m spoiled too. You’re in good company.

      Amy sank down into the couch next to Chelsea, folding her arms across her chest. Fine, she snapped. Maybe we are both a little bit spoiled. But I’m a hard worker too!

      I know you are, said Morgan in a kind voice. We all know you are.

      Now, what’s the news, Amy? asked Emily. What did you want to tell us?

      You guys didn’t hear what happened last night? She looked hopefully at her four friends. She loved being the person who knew something that the others hadn’t heard yet. Of course, she didn’t like the title that often went with it. All during grade school she had suffered being called Miss Ngo It All. But since starting seventh grade, she’d been trying to avoid that label.

      No, Amy, said Carlie. Spill the beans!

      Well, you know last night was the first football game at Boscoe Bay High, and they weren’t supposed to win—

      But they beat the pants off of Wedgeport, interrupted Emily. That’s old news, Amy. My brother actually took me to the game, and it was a—

      "That’s not my news," said Amy. She scowled at Emily.

      Okay then, said Morgan. What is it?

      According to today’s newspaper, it happened after the game last night. A bunch of vandals from Wedgeport High attacked the city park and made a total mess of it.

      McPhearson Park? asked Morgan sadly.

      Yes. They actually drove their four-wheel-drive vehicles into the park and pulled down the swings and lampposts and knocked over trees and everything. The grass was totally torn up from their tires. The photo in the newspaper made it look like a hurricane had hit. I would’ve brought it, but my dad was still reading the editorials.

      That’s too bad, said Emily. That was such a pretty park.

      I know … Amy sighed. I used to play there all the time when I was a little girl. I have so many happy memories of it … and now it looks like a war zone.

      Well, I’m sure they will fix it up and it—

      No, said Amy quickly. That’s just the problem. It sounds like there are no funds in the city budget to cover the cost of the repairs. And even worse than that, a lot of the businesses in town, including my very own parents, have wanted to get rid of the park for several years now.

      Get rid of it? Morgan adjusted her glasses and peered curiously at Amy. Why would anyone want that?

      For a stupid parking lot! said Amy. In fact, that’s what started my argument with my mom this morning.

      Why does Boscoe Bay need a parking lot? asked Emily.

      I know why, said Chelsea. In fact, my dad would agree with Amy’s parents on this. He says there’s no place to park in town, and all the tourist business is going down to the waterfront.

      That’s because the waterfront is cool, said Morgan.

      "Of course you’d say that, said Amy. Your mom’s shop is there."

      Lots of people think the waterfront is cool, protested Emily.

      Yeah, but they might not think it was so cool if there was no place to park down there, pointed out Chelsea.

      I’d still go there, said Carlie. Even if I had to walk a mile and a—

      But you’re not a grown-up with a—

      "Okay, okay! said Morgan, holding up both hands and starting to wear her presidential expression. That is not what this meeting is about. Then she pointed to her colorful beaded bracelet. Rainbows rule, you guys. Remember."

      Sorry, said Amy, although she still felt angry about what was going on in town. But she did know the meaning of the bracelet—even if she didn’t fully get the religious connection, she was well aware that the letters on the beads, LYNAY, meant to love your neighbor as yourself, which meant the girls needed to respect one another. And for now it meant that Amy needed to close her mouth.

      Anyway, continued Morgan. As you know, this is our first official meeting since school started. And the main item on our agenda today is to discuss a new project.

      Emily took out a notepad. I’m ready.

      Okay, said Morgan. "I’m sure you guys remember how we decided at our last

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