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Title	:	Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford
Author	:	J. Belinda Yandell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 150 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2004 by Cumberland House Publishing (first published January 31st 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Holiday. Christmas. Inspirational

Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford Paperback | Pages: 150 pages

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"It's not what you have but what you do with it that counts." This is the story of how that philosophy worked out in the life of Penny Buford, an ordinary housewife who leaves an extraordinary legacy.

Yandell's Small Change is about a devoted housewife, Penny Burford, who scoops up her husband Roy's loose change and eventually puts together a substantial bank account. She uses the money for secret charities, of which the phlegmatic Roy learns only upon Penny's death. Why Penny did what she did the way she did it then becomes the story, and the reader must return to Roy and Penny's childhoods to understand it fully. Yandell is sentimental but not syrupy: Roy and Penny's marriage is realistically drawn, and the points she makes about the nature of charity are well taken.

John Mort
Copyright American Library Association

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Original Title:	Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford
ISBN:	1581824149 (ISBN13: 9781581824148)
Edition Language:	English

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This is an afternoon read and a very sweet book. You put it down feeling like you can make a difference and that the small acts of kindness that make up our lives really do have an impact on others. And it contains one of my favorite themes...that although we cannot always control the circumstances we find ourselves in, we can always control our reaction to them.

This book was very different than what I was expecting, but what a delightfully cute book! It is so simple and sweet, and Penny is such a wonderfully strong character even while she is unassuming and content to just play her quiet part. I am just sad about how much of her life she was unable to share with those she loved most. I am really glad I decided to pick this one up.

This a very small book that was inspiring, fun, and uplifting. I need to get my life in order just in case I should drop dead and my surviving family find out how cluttered, disorganized, and not very wonderful I lived. This book helped me want to change even at my older age. Penny's mantra - "It's what you do with it that counts" Small change or life.

My mom gave me this book at Thanksgiving, it was a fun book to read before Christmas-easy and quick to get through. A great reminder about the importance of serving others and saving your pennies!! :)

Genre: life lessons, the secret life of married couples, little things matterSummary: Penny Burford is a preacher's daughter who married a proud man from a very poor background. One day, she decides to do something with the coins she finds around the house.Response: This is the choice for book club this month. I was willing to read it for that sake alone, but I got caught up in the story. It's a sweet story and the characters become very real. At first, I was worried that it was going to be



This is a story about a woman from my mother's generation who were only allowed to like what their husband's liked and had only the money that their husband's allowed them to have. What she did with an irritation in her life was inspirational and heartbreaking at the same time.