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Abel, Janice

 
9781484067734: Brass Notes Over Wolf Creek

Synopsis

Summer 1945, Wolf Creek, Iowa: Eleven year old Jen has a dream to play a trumpet but times are hard. It is wartime. Everyone is doing something for the war, everyone except her. Trying to understand a war a world away yet holding to her dream she finds herself in a tangle of friendships, and unexpected prejudice. Dad says “no” to the trumpet. Mom say “maybe.” But when Danny teases, “Girls can’t play the trumpet,” meek and mild Jen turns downright spunky. Walk with Jen and her friends through her war torn troubles. When a Wolf Creek soldier is killed in the war, Jen finally has an idea of how to help in the war effort. But will it work? Who will help her? It is a summer Jen will never forget. And that is what she wants to tell you about.From Iowa author, Janice Abel- “Brass Notes Over Wolf Creek is my salute to childhood and community life in rural America.”

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À propos de l'auteur

Janice Abel is author of Little White Horse Christmas stories, Sweet Summer and a multitude of fantasy short stories. While her fiction writing has been mostly in science fiction, Brass Notes Over Wolf Creek is a recall of growing up in rural Iowa town where as she states, " I learned to see the distance of a thousand starry nights." She writes for both youth and adults. Dream Shifters is a published collection of her fantasy short stories. Many of her stories are available as an e-book. Now retired, she lives with a gardener and seven lb. yorkie.

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