| Book Review – Price of Silence |
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by
Staci Stallings
Book review by Tom Gilbert
Finding your way in a new school
can be plenty stressful. It’s hard enough
to make friends, do the schoolwork and deal with
all the usual peer pressures without having to
adjust to all that change in the middle of the
year.
How would you like to be in this situation and
suddenly discover that the talent you have is
putting your life in danger?
That’s the scenario for Staci Stallings
new book, Price of Silence. The
story involves Robyn Carter, who is studious
and a good kid with natural writing abilities.
That writing talent is discovered and put to
use almost immediately for the school newspaper.
It happens more from her being in the right place
at the “write” time. James Madison
High publishes twice a week as opposed to once
a month for the paper she edited at her old,
much smaller school. When she’s encouraged
to visit on deadline day by her English teacher
she’s thrust in to instant duty and pulls
it off.
Her gift for writing fast and her interview
skills for probing beneath the surface put her
on a fast track as the school’s new star
reporter. There is a problem with a gang and
violence at this school and most people don’t
want to talk about it. The fear is hovering over
the students and administration. Anybody relate
to this timely topic? Robyn, however, is compelled
to tell the truth as she covers the story. This
makes her a target of the gang, the Scorpions,
and the threats combined with her desire to make
friends, stand up to the bad guys and a “push-pull” relationship
with her “dream” boyfriend create
a taut and highly readable story as gripping
as today’s headlines of school violence.
The book has no overt Christian theology, but
does contain elements of the Gospel including
sacrifice, forgiveness and standing up for the
truth. I found the story, and especially the
dialogue, engaging and my fifteen year-old daughter
also read it and gave it "thumbs up". Staci Stallings
is making her book available to read for free
with email installments at her website, stacistallings.com.
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