After Anika’s half-brother, Rick, arrives unexpectedly in Africa, the Scott family decides to spend some time with him at Kenya’s game parks. Still struggling to accept Rick’s arrival, Anika is even more confused when he begins to express his hostile views of Christians and Christianity. To complicate things further, fellow missionaries believe her parents should resign because Rick’s arrival has compromised their testimony. Anika’s attempt to seek help for a wounded animal have different consequences than she intends, and she and Rick find themselves in the middle of a confrontation with poachers.
Although this fourth book in the Anika Scott series does not deal with these problems in a simplistic way, the Scott family seems to give spiritual responses to questions or comments far more than most missionaries would, unless it was specifically for the purpose of expressing their beliefs to a non-Christian in their midst (as, in this case, perhaps it was).
Reading level: age `10-14 years