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Jordyn’s Review:
Book Review for Best Practices:Encouraging Confidence and Relationship Building
By Bianca Clark
Encouragement at a young age before adulthood is hard, Bianca Clark wrote this book to make people more aware of this issue. This book had good intentions and goals but she did not achieve them in the way that they were intended. The characters make this seem more of a children’s book, which then is hard to actually take the advice that is given. This book is missing reality, there are no challenges or adversity that these characters faced which in life it really isn’t that way. It also has a very stereotypical family and chances are every single person that reads the book does not have that type of family where the parents are together and being fully involved in the children’s lives. I will say at the end of each section having the questions and advice page is a nice inclusion. In conclusion I rate this book a 4 out of 10,it had good intentions but did not execute or educate it should have.
My Review:
Best’s Practices by Bianca Clark: A Book Review
Genre: Self-help
I had high hopes for Bianca Clark’s Best’s Practices when I first read the synopsis. Being a new Youth Services Librarian, I thought any sort of help in diving into the teenage mind would be beneficial and so readily jumped on board. While I am unsure what I was expecting, Clark’s work was not at all what I expected it – and as a result I am unsure how I feel about the book.
Chapter One, was the most like what I thought the book was going to be. Discussing the importance of listening and conversation-making, Chapter One paints the picture of a family with three siblings – CeCe, Malachi, and London – and talks about how CeCe is getting ready for a test and how listening/conversation-making helps her in her career. These characters stay throughout the novella with each chapter being a different point in their lives rather than a continuous plot line. I say the Chapter One is the most like what I thought it would be because it seemed like an older sister (CeCe) giving her younger sister (London) advice.
While the point of the characters may be to make the situation more relatable, I feel that having them was extremely awkward. I think if Clark would have written in 2nd person using the phrases “Imagine” and “Think about a time”, the messages of the chapters would stand out more. It seemed as if she was trying to write a guide while also writing a story and, honestly, I think she should have just picked one or the other.
As a whole, however, Clark does mention important skills teens need to think about and be aware of. In fact, I think she could have mentioned a lot more. Also, I like how she put discussion questions and practice activities at the end of the chapters – I only wish that she put more. If she expected teens to do them I think it would have been better to give them more options and allow they to discuss and practice in different ways.
| Characters: | 7 / 10 |
| Writing: | 8 / 10 |
| Editor: | 8 / 10 |
| Total | 23 / 30 |
Title: Best’s Practices: Encouraging Confidence and Relationship – Building
Author: Bianca Clark
Edition: ARC
Published: 2022
Publisher: Poshb Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9798987394212
If you want to get it: Amazon; Barnes&Noble
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