Peculiar Treasures Sparknotes

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The Book, Peculiar Treasures by Robbin Jones Gunn, is truly a great book. The story is fiction, and takes place at Rancho Corona University in Southern California. The protagonist of the story is Katie Weldon. Katie Weldon is now a Senior in college, and she is starting summer school to make up for some credits at the beginning of the book. Katie is not happy about taking summer school, but she wants to graduate on time so she is doing anything that will finish her goal. She still hasn’t declared a major, and that is her conflict throughout the story. She can’t figure out what her passion is, and she doesn’t know what career she wants to go into. At this point, Katie is having a hard time figuring out what she will do, because she’s in …show more content…
This is now the middle of the book and She is putting relationship drama aside to focus on college and her future. She decides to take the RA position at one of the dorm halls. Then she has to quit her waitressing job, and it just causes more drift from Rick. But she still maintains contact with Rick. After taking the RA position, Katie makes some new friends, including Nicole, the other RA, and Julia the head of the dorm. Nicole teaches Katie all these tricks, one being this sticky face masks, that make the skin pores tight and eventually leading to a clear skin complexion. Katie is loving her new job, and she is enjoying the interaction with all the new freshmen in the dorms, she feels like this is what she is meant to do with her life. Meanwhile, the campus security guard always gives Katie a hard time, and she calls him “Goatee Guy” and he was part of Christy and Todd’s Wedding, but she still doesn’t know his name, so she calls him “Goatee Guy.” She is very intimidated by this guy, and she gets nervous around him. Overall this book had a powerful message, and that message is let God be in control of your worries. Robbin Jones Gunn did a fantastic job on writing this book, it was the first book of the Katie Weldon Series, and by far a great way to start a new

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