The Backup Singer: What Is the Color of Friendship?

By Barb Huff

Shanice Stevenson is a great singer--so good that she once sang lead for the talented garage band she and some friends have successfully pulled together. But when beautiful, blonde Jenna Rose Brinley... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586609815
• ISBN13: 9781586609818
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Fantastic book!

I really connected with Shanice, a biracial chick living in a mostly white town, who is faced with the possibility that her friends like her only because she acts "white." Don't worry! Friendship prevails! Barb Huff paints wonderful characters in this series. I'm just in love with all of them. Most real characters in Christian fiction.

The Backup Singer

The Backup Singer focuses on Shanice Stevenson, a teenager in a small Ohio town who sings backup for a talented garage band. Things are going well for Shanice; she has a great group of friends, a loving family who surrounds her, and the band is starting to get some gigs. Her cousin Tawny, who lives in Detroit, is also coming for the summer. Shanice and Tawny have always gotten along like sisters, until now. Shanice is biracial while Tawny is black. Her cousin's taunts plant doubts in Shanice's mind and her internal struggle about who she is and where she fits in flows over into her relationships with her friends and her family. As her struggle deepens, she begins to withdrawal from her closest friends. Will she sever the ties altogether or realize true friendship reaches past your looks and into your soul?