Encounter

When Religions Become Classmates - From Oregon to India and Back

Kathy Beckwith

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2 Wonders LLC
08 October 2021

Religious & spiritual fiction; Interfaith relations; Sikhism; Personal & social issues; Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's&YA)

Annie had no plan to go to India. The essay contest was just a class assignment. But because her heart was breaking over what she had done, she wrote, she won, and she went ...

Annie falls hard for the new boy at school - a Sikh her parents forbid her to date - raising questions Annie has never faced. Then when a friend dies through events Annie set in motion, she cries out for answers. Escaping from her guilt and regret, Annie accepts a scholarship to study at an international boarding school in India. There she encounters a world she never knew existed. Though she longs for answers, India gives her much more than answers ever could - the courage to question.

Come walk (and run and climb) with Annie, Aziz, Ketsa, Vidhya, Danny, Param, and others from Oregon and India, where religions become classmates, and the world changes.

By: Kathy Beckwith
Imprint: 2 Wonders LLC
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 463g
ISBN: 9781737477709
ISBN 10: 173747770X
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 08 October 2021
Recommended Age: From 13 to 18 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Author Kathy Beckwith grew up on an Oregon farm. After college, she and her husband Wayne went to India with the Peace Corps to work in village horticulture. Later, a boarding school in South India became home to their family. Back in the U.S., Kathy became a community mediator, a mediation trainer and school mediation coach, a work she has done for nearly three decades in Oregon, and also in India. Their ""family sabbatical"" tradition has taken them back to ""their school"" and always back to their Peace Corps village in Karnataka. Like Annie in her young adult novel ENCOUNTER, after discovering another meaning for ""Animator,"" Kathy says, ""That's what I hope to be when I really grow up."" Kathy is a graduate of Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho (Business Administration), and did a semester of advanced study with the University of the Seven Seas (now ""Semester at Sea""). She is a mom and grandma, and a picker of blackberries and baker of berry pies in the summer. She loves to look for ""singing places"" (which she always tries out), and likes walking on the country road near their home."