content: Okay, I'll admit that I'm a little older than the audience that this book is aimed at, but I was a teen on Venezuela Trip (Nerve to Serve) that this book was about and had to check it out. I remember Susie asking us to submit our diary entries at the end of the trip because someone was going to write a book about the trip for the Brio Series. After reading the book I was impressed with the stories that it told that really happened. Just reading the book reminds me of the time of that spiritual high - I tend to get it out every July when Brio is on a trip wither I'm on the trip too or not. The stories that are in it that are true (I don't know about finding a Journal in the rubble) are great fun to read; the description of breakfast was very accurate too - Croutons instead of toast - and I'll add "fruit juice" that was more like a smoothie because of all the pulp in it. Love the book!