Caring: A Book About Caring

By Mary Small and Stacey Previn

Explains many different ways that children can show they care.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Aug 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666301731

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Reviews for Caring

[karin7-11 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Evan is going to be thirteen in a few months, when he will become Marked. This will allow him the freedom to get an after school job, shop and do anything he’d like without requiring someone else to do it for him. He is fearful, however, since his sister, Lily, never came back from being Marked; she was a rare failure. Evan is sure he is being spied on, and has for some time, but it’s not until he meets Erin, a new girl in from Beacon, that he finds out he has been spied on and that it’s by a group of Unmarked teens. The race is on to expose these teens before his time comes to be Marked—or should he?
I barely gave this 3 stars, as I hovered between caring and not caring what happened. The writing is okay, neither bad nor stellar, but given that this is Angler’s first book, I chose to give it the benefit of the doubt. The test will come when I give it to my son to see if he likes it, although he’s already dubious because he’s nearly a year older than the protagonist at the start of the book. There is nothing highly original about the concept of the barren North America, and given that it is supposed to be a Christian series (not seen any glimpses yet other than one passing remark about how some people simply disappeared without a trace during a time of multiple deaths), but the mark idea comes from there as well as the push to one government as per Revelation. I’m going to try the second book to see if it’s any better, but if not, won’t continue.