The Reveal (Becoming Beka Series, Book 4) [Paperback]

Sarah Anne Sumpolec (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2005

After a summer filled with work and guitar lessons, Beka spends ten days in Haiti before launching into her senior year. Beka seems to be on stable footing, but everyone around her is falling apart. Surprises await Beka as she faces Gretchen after her two-month stay in detention. Gretchen is darker and moodier. Then there's Mark, who worms his way back into Beka's affections despite her father's refusal to let them officially date.

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About the Author

SARAH ANNE SUMPOLEC is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and holds both a Bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary teaching certification. Her background in psychology allowed her to work both in an acute care inpatient setting and a long-term residential treatment center, both of which helped to provide her much insight and compassion towards those struggling to cope with a life that is not always kind or fair. She continually researches and speaks on the hot topics facing teens today. Sarah is the author of the Becoming Beka series, has written for a number of magazines such as Brio and Teens 4 Jesus, and has appeared on Janet Parshall's America, The Tyra Banks Show, and The 700 Club. Sarah lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her husband, Jeff, and their three daughters.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Moody Publishers; New Edition edition (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802464548
• ISBN-13: 978-0802464545
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,576,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

If you've enjoyed the Becoming Beka series, you can find out more about the Madison family in the spin-off novel Totally Unfamous!

Totally Unfamous is a blog book and is available online for free at www.totallyunfamous.com

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars grown up Beka still a great read, May 26, 2005

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T. Suzanne Eller, Author "Suzanne Eller, Author" (beautiful NE Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Reveal (Becoming Beka Series, Book 4) (Paperback)

Beka is a senior and the shattered pieces are behind her, but that doesn't mean that life is now easy. But the grown up Beka deals with the complexities of her senior year, of choosing between Josh and Mark, and of forgiving the past. Sarah Anne Sumpolec has provided a great next book in this series, keeping me reading and wanting more!

4.0 out of 5 stars CTF Devourer gives it a 4, October 12, 2011

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J:-)mi "~ Eph. 3:20" (CTF Devourer) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Reveal (Becoming Beka Series, Book 4) (Paperback)

This book, as with the others in the series, covers quite a few intense issues, but as they are real issues, facing real teens today, it is also very realistic. It also takes a look at what God has to say about some of these things. This is the 4th book in the Becoming Beka series, a story about a young teen who's mother died, who felt so lost she considered suicide and who became a Christian and is now seeking to live her life in highschool as a follower of Christ even while many typical high school challenges come her way.
~ CTFDevourer.com

5.0 out of 5 stars Beka is finding strength and solace in her newly found faith, June 1, 2007

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Teenreads.com (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Reveal (Becoming Beka Series, Book 4) (Paperback)

At last, Beka Madison is a senior. If her tumultuous junior year is any indication of how her final year of high school will unfold, Beka is ready to walk across the stage to receive her diploma. Interestingly, author Sarah Anne Sumpolec weaves a more upbeat set of circumstances into this, her fourth installment in the Becoming Beka series. While Beka is still new to the Christian faith, she continually allows God to interject His ways and principles into her heart and mind. Rather than go it alone, Beka is finding strength and solace in her newly found faith and in her deepening relationship with God.

Beka's big step of faith occurs when an on-again, off-again short-term missions trip to Haiti forces her to depend on God in uncertain and unfamiliar settings. Frazzled and afraid, Beka admits to her best friend, Lori, that she might have made a mistake in committing to volunteer on this church outreach. Regardless of her unraveling emotions, Beka is going --- and what she learns there, amidst poverty and material lack, prepares her for the challenges of school.

With the lingering after-effects of an assault still on her mind, Beka wonders how her friend-turned-enemy Gretchen will treat her. But it isn't the now-demoralized Gretchen who's the threat anymore. It's Mai, another one of Gretchen's former friends. Beka watches, somewhat helplessly, as Mai cunningly befriends Beka's younger sister, Lucy. Warning her off does no good, and Beka is eventually forced to decide among sisterly loyalty, personal integrity and obeying God. Stepping out in yet another act of faith, Beka stretches and grows in her Christian journey as she chooses the hard road of personal accountability and sure social rejection. Somehow, Beka isn't quite so dependent upon the good opinions of others --- and this is a real turning point in her life.

While Beka steadily makes internal progress, external chaos is reigning. Her father begins openly courting another woman, her best friend's adopted parents are in crisis, and Beka is constantly in a state of flux as she wrestles with her feelings for two boys. Nothing from Beka's standpoint seems simple; even the decision about college is keeping her up at night. Yet, God continues to provide Beka with just enough grace, insight and hope for the day.

Readers will enjoy the continuing journey of Becoming Beka as this character faces down her fears by learning to lean into God and His promises to provide for her every need.

--- Reviewed by Michele Howe