ENCOUNTER: When Religions Become Classmates - From Oregon to India and Back

by Kathy Beckwith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737477716
Publisher:	2 Wonders LLC
Publication date:	10/08/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	366
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Part I. Taking Flight

Part II. Skunk Naps (Oregon)

Part III. Cow Crossings (India)

Part IV. Coyote Calls (Back Home)