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Future Books: Why I Bite My Nails (The next title to be published.)
Why I Bite My Nails provides adolescent readers with a glimpse into the dysfunctional world of a seven year-old girl who learns to deal with the fear and anxiety of living with parents who constantly argue and fight. This work does not have a happy ending, but real life for many of America’s children is not happy. This story subtly conveys how some children are forced to silently watch their fathers manipulate and abuse their mothers, while their mothers retaliate the only way they know how: fighting, crying and fussing. The protagonist’s only refuge from the turmoil in her life is her grandmother.
Toothache Toothache explains how the simple pleasures and afforded advantages of one child’s life might seem to be unattainable delights for another child. The book is a story about a 7 year-old girl’s first visit to the dentist and how that one visit allowed her to enjoy one of life’s simple pleasures: chewing bubble gum.
Toothache delightfully evokes laughter and amusement while giving its reader insight into an impoverished child’s life. In today’s world it is difficult for children growing up in a middle-class society or beyond to understand poverty or the children who endure it. Furthermore, this work is literature impoverished children can identify with.
Farewell, Ms. Coretta Farewell, Ms. Coretta, honors and explains the significance of Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s death to the generations of people living in America today. The protagonist of this book is a 12 year-old girl who attends the public viewing of Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s remains and the musical tribute that followed at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Although this book contains many actual facts, it is still a fictional work.
The narrator of Farewell, Ms. Coretta is based on my daughter, who was actually eight when she accompanied me, her father and a family friend to pay our respects to Mrs. King. In this book I explain and answer the many questions that my daughter had that day like, “Is Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson’s brother?” or the fact that Cicely Tyson is not Harriet Tubman. And, she had no clue of who Dick Gregory was. However, she recognized Oprah. She screamed when Ms. Winfrey emerged from a limousine parked behind “old” Ebenezer Baptist Church. We were blessed to be in line right beside the church, right outside the fence where the limousine was parked. It was an extraordinary day. Although I answer these questions and more in this book, I also write about the incredible influence Mrs. King and Dr. King had on this country and the contrast of the mindsets of Americans at the time of their deaths and the contrasting circumstances of their deaths and home-going ceremonies.
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Published Books:
Oh No! A ROACH is about a young girl who is trying to follow the straight and narrow path to the American Dream: Becoming a Prosperous Successful Person. Despite the difficulties that she faces at home, she works hard in school, follows the rules, and gets along with others. However, no matter how much she tries to do what’s right, things don’t always work out in her favor.
Young readers will enjoy this work. However, this book was written to remind both children and adults of the power we each have to negatively or positively influence another person’s life. |
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." -Grandma Moses (1860-1961) |
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Children enjoy reading books they can relate to. |
