title: Marieka: Marieka and the Sheik
author: Beckman, Kay Hall
description: Marieka is a story about a young girl and her two best friends. They decided to take the high school graduations trip to Saudi Arabia to see how the country's economic system worked. On their trip there they met three young men who were very interested in them. After they finished college they planned on taking a job within the government so they could travel the world by working in different countries. But after they reached the end of their college studies, they discovered they might have to change their choice of jobs. The girls were perused and almost kidnapped and barely escaped being killed. Travel and a career was their priority. However, life sometimes gives us a wild adventure that we did not ask for or want. We just have to decide what to do with it.