Sierra Jensen Collection, Volume 1 by Robin Jones Gunn
The first book in this collection, Only You, Sierra starts out with her returning from a ministry trip. She meets a boy, Paul at the airport & feels an instant connection with him even though he is three years older than her. She is also dealing with her family's move to Portland & starting a new school. She is in such a hurry to grow up and be in college that she is not even trying to make friends. If she can just get through this next year and a half unnoticed.....
The second book, In Your Dreams starts out with Sierra caring for her aging grandmother while her family is out of town. Her grandmother needs surgery and Sierra steps up and shows how mature she is in handling the situation. Her friends from the ministry trip she took want her to come visit over spring break, so she is job hunting to pay for the plane tickets. Her first interview does not pan out, they want her to work on Sundays & she needs to have the day free for church. By chance she goes to a bakery and ends up landing a job there. She is also slowly making friends and has her first date.
The third book, Don't You Wish Sierra is looking forward to her trip to California to visit her friends. Until her sister tells her she is going along with her. They have a complicated relationship with a lot of jealousy on both sides. Her sister meets a boy on the first day in California and all Sierra's friends are part of a couple. She feels like an outsider, a baby and wishes she were grown up and in college like them. As the week goes on she begins to grow and realize that she should live with godly contentment and pay attention to her side of the fence. She also prays about her relationship with her sister and realizes she doesn't really know her at all.
These were very cute books, but I didn't feel like they were very realistic in the way the kids talked and interacted with one another. Hopefully the rest of the series deals with more issues that kids face these days. I feel this volume would be appropiate for Jr High & High School aged girls.
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