The Great Divide by Lynette Ferreira

ABNA Publisher Weekly Reviewer

In this well-intentioned novel dealing with interracial love, academically gifted Chrissie Taylor has received a scholarship to The Christian Academy in Charleston. Her parents are happy and proud, and her father privately says that now she won’t have to go to school with so many black kids. But a black kid at the Academy catches her eye the moment she sees him. Vincent almost makes her forget her attraction to flirtatious, suntanned, blond Johnathan who has most of the girls in school interested in him. To add to the novel’s wish-fulfillment theme, handsome Vincent’s band has signed a record deal with a big producer and will be releasing its first single in the fall. All they need is a girl singer. Enter Chrissie, who just happens to sing and write songs. The chemistry is instant and the best part of the book is the young lovers’ trying to convince each other why their union would destroy their fathers.