Laura Browne is the author of two non-fiction books, "Why Can't You Communicate Like Me? How Smart Women Get Results At Work" and "Raise Rules for Women: How To Make More Money At Work." For more information go to www.lauracbrowne.com. Annie Clark and The Pearls of Wisdom was chosen as a semi-finalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. The book is for girls 8 - 13 and their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers. Here's what one reader said: "When I first started reading the story, it was with the opinion that I was trying to see if it would make a good gift for pre-teen girl r...