Swept Away

Decisions, decisions! How is a girl supposed to choose? Lessons of right and wrong are put to the test in the Scenarios series, where you can test your decision-making abilities in an eye-opening, but safe, way. Each book follows a character up to the point where she has to make an important, life-changing decision—then it’s your turn to choose. Will your choices lead to a happy ending?

What Would YOU Do? . . .

“Cheating for a good reason is okay, isn’t it?” Seniors and best friends, Amber and Brittany, are neck and neck in a good-natured competition for a car being given away by a local business. The winner? Whoever maintains straight As without being absent one day during the school year. When Amber cheats on her final exams to win the car and Brittany gets blamed for it, Amber is torn. Will she let her friend take the fall? Or will she admit she cheated and face the consequences? What will Amber do?

“How far is too far?” Sophomore Lilly Armstrong is always looking for ways to escape the confines of her unhappy home. She “invents” youth group activities just so she can hang out with her boyfriend, Jason—the only one in Lilly’s life who makes her feel special. When Jason convinces Lilly to lie to her parents about a church overnighter so she can stay at his house while his parents are out of town, how far will she let things go? What will Lilly do?

Help Amber and Lilly make the difficult decisions and see how your choice creates consequences with life-altering results.

My thoughts: These two stories lead the Scenarios series down a slightly older path. Some tough, but necessary issues are tackled in hopes that the reader will use her own choices to help commit to good future decisions. It was definitely a bit difficult to tackle issues like purity for a teen audience. I pray these stories will help you when you come face-to-face with pressures like these.

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