Straight from The Onion Vine
I’ve written the first book Between in a series for tweens entitled Straight From the Onion Vine. The second book is almost ready (hang in there). And I already know EXACTLY what’s going to happen in Book Three.
Kara, my main character comes from my own experience as a nurse and mother, working around patients and realizing that there’s a lot of mental anguish among girls before and during high school. Fears that they are not normal, thin, pretty, intelligent, (you name it) enough. But, the one question they don’t seem to ask is – according to who? So, this book comes from caring, strength and confidence and a mighty place called love.
In Between, Kara is searching for some similarities in this new world of differences called high school. Her best friend, Annie, who was her rock in middle school, is changing in ways Kara doesn’t understand, and nothing can prepare her for the utter out-of-placeness of those first few days. Kara ends up meeting people, but relationships are different now — maybe because she is getting older. She’s not taking anyone at face value, and Kara learns not to let some silly high school ‘categorization’ get in the way of finding out a person’s true characteristics for herself. When she begins to do a lot of soul searching about what urks her, parallels unfold among her friends that she could never have envisioned. Family secrets are shared among friends that should never be made public at school for fear of the old rumor mill: the Onion vine.
Beyond their high school personas, Kara finds friends that offer her support, similarities, comparisons and contrasts and windows. Windows on who she is…that even she didn’t realize were there for the opening.
Enjoy the read! And I hope to hear from you!
