Alice, an Adventist Girl
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While journeying to China so that her parents can begin their missionary work, Alice joins a pair of red-headed twins in following mysterious messages around the ship, weathering a storm, and observing the Sabbath.
Alice must adjust to everything from chopsticks to street gangs when her family arrives in Shanghai, but soon she is helping her mother teach health classes and starting her own Sabbath School, all the while followed by a mysterious man.
In 1927, Alice is comfortably settled in China, helping with her parents' missionary work, when her mother becomes sick with tuberculosis and Alice, aided by some surprise visitors, learns to trust God's will.
Alice, a Seventh-Day Adventist living comfortably in Portland, Oregon, in the 1920s, learns trust in God when her family accepts a mission to China.