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BOOK REVIEW: The Encore
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: The Encore Author: Sarah Anne Sumpolec Publisher: Moody Publishers ISBN 0-8024-6458-0 Genre: Inspirational/Young Adult/ Fiction
This is book five in the Beka series and I’m sorry I missed the earlier ones. Beka’s senior year should have been great, but everything seems to go wrong. First the song she wrote for a school assignment mentioned God, which gets her in trouble with Mrs. Brynwit, the principal. Then there’s Mai, an avowed enemy who wants Beka’s job as editor of the school newspaper. Lucy, Beka’s younger sister is running with a rough crowd, their mother died two years ago, and her father is getting married again.
As if that wasn’t enough, Beka is torn between Mark, a fellow senior, who says her loves her, but doesn’t want to talk about anything serious, and Josh, who is away at college, and says he wants them to be friends. A girl can’t love two boys at the same time can she? And then there’s God. What does He want from her?
Sarah Anne captures the very essence of what it’s like to be young, undecided, insecure, and seeking answers when you’re not sure of the questions. Beka doesn’t seem like a character in a book. She’s a real person with real problems, trying to be everything to everyone, but never feeling she succeeds. Buy this book for your teenage daughter. She’ll love it.
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