Now Picture This (The Sierra Jensen Series #9)
Grade 6 Up-Teen girls looking for answers, advice, or just wanting to know if anyone else is going through what they are should check out these books about Sierra Jensen. They have a Christian perspective, but they are not preachy in their presentation. Instead, they give readers opportunity for reflection. In Hold on Tight, Sierra is on a college-scouting trip with a van full of friends and her older brother. She discovers that while she is ready to leave high school, she might not be ready to leave the security of home and family. In Now Picture This, she begins to focus on her relationship with Paul to the exclusion of family and friends. The story addresses the issue of purity in a relationship without sermonizing and touches on how abstinence can also mean being emotionally virtuous. In both titles, the plots are lively, the characters fully developed, and the themes relevant to teens. The author replays enough of past events so that the series entries can be read out of sequence. Even though Sierra and her friends are more mature and articulate than many high school students, teens will identify with them. This series is an offshoot of Gunn's "Christy Miller" series (Bethany).Pam Hopper Webb, Sandpoint Community Christian School, IDCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.