by Brooke Turbyfill | Jun 1, 2023 | Literature
My mom and I switched off driving through the mountains on our trip from Atlanta to Asheville, North Carolina. It was my first excursion into full-time homeschooling, and my kids were entering fourth grade and first grade. This was the road trip to kick off a new...
by Natalie Nyquist | Jun 1, 2023 | Literature
Sometimes bravery is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain. —Veronica Roth, Allegiant, p.509 We always remember the moments when reading changed us. Books that nestled deep, becoming companions for years into decades. Words received from someone who owned...
by Margaret Philbrick | Jan 1, 2022 | Literature
Margaret Philbrick spent many summers playing tag in the cherry and apple orchards of northern Wisconsin. Her friend Julie grew up on one of those orchards and her life experiences of harvest and loss inspired this story. ******* Like most things it started with one....
by Stephanie Reeves | Jul 1, 2021 | Literature
I’ve always loved a good story. I lived in my head a lot when I was younger, always forging stories about mysteries or romance or faraway places. From the time I was in middle school I knew that I wanted to write some of those stories. And then life interfered and,...
by Laura Peterson | Jul 1, 2021 | Literature
Tomoe /toe-MOE-eh/ Hasegawa is an eleven-year-old girl in seventeenth-century Japan who aspires to be courageous like the samurai. After Christianity is banned and persecutions intensify, Tomoe’s Catholic community flees to a remote island. They are pursued by the...
by Katherine James | Jul 1, 2021 | Literature
Can You See Anything Now?, a debut novel, follows a year in the small town of Trinity where the tragedy and humility of a few reveal the reality of people’s motivations and desires. ******* Chapter 1 Margie: early in the morning Of all of the ways that Margie...
