There You'll Find Me

Gr 7 Up—Finley Sinclair is spending her senior year in Ireland, hoping to reconnect with herself and God by following her deceased brother's footsteps through the land he'd loved so much. The time and peace should also help her finish her original composition for her New York Conservatory audition. However, beginning with the plane ride, where she meets Beckett Rush, teen actor heartthrob, and is wrangled into becoming his personal assistant, things go awry. Assigned a project at her new school to "adopt" a grandmother, Finley is saddled with the crankiest woman in the nursing home. Then her host family is unable to take her to see the sights her brother had so loved, but the aggravatingly charming Beckett consents to be her tour guide. When the school queen bee discovers how much time Finley is spending with him, she decides to make Finley's host sister miserable. As her life crumbles around her, Finley must learn to trust people and God to see her through. With a beautiful setting and complex characters, Jones has written a powerful book about grief. There is no tidy ending, but readers are left with hope that Finley's life will continue to get better. Libraries looking to add to their Christian fiction holdings would do well to consider this book.—Jessica Miller, New Britain Public Library, CT