El nino, Demonstration, Cross Country, What If The Indians?, Sleep Away, Flip Turn, and Music for the Dream make up this collection of seven short stories. In them you will meet Nash and Joana, who are considering having a child; Charm Palme, an aspiring journalist who wants to show a positive side of Oakland, California; Merina Jordan, who gets caught up in double romantic intrigue on her way from New York City to Los Angeles; Alura, who speaks up for the first time in her high-school history class; Glori, an adolescent who is coming of age; Blessine and Brick who are tempted to buy a...

Award-winning author, Valerie Haynes Perry, has written this book to help you maintain the clarity, self-confidence, and motivation you need to bring your own book into being. Write the Book You Want-Be Your Own Coach is the third book in her writers' trilogy. It's preceded by Listening Out Loud-A Friend to the Serious Writer and Write, Read, Listen-Your Handy Writing Coach. This capstone empowers you to combine your desire, experience, and skill in order to live up to the promise of the title. You can benefit from this book if you are new to writing or experienced and wish to approach the...