A retired educator of 35 years, Beverly Lorraine Moore has dedicated most of her life working toward uplifting, enriching, and improving the lives of many youngsters from elementary to high school aged students. She taught ESL for twenty-five of those years. Beverly later became a high school counselor for ten years before retiring. She is currently a professor in residence for one of the area universities. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband, daughter, and son. Colored Pencils for Lori is Beverly’s debut work that delivers a message destined to reach adolescents who have the resiliency to rise when life knocks them down. For more information, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bevlormoore or bevlorbooks.com. FB: Colored Pencils for Lori David James, the illustrator, digital artist, and graphic designer, can be reached through his website, mokojumbie.net.
Colored Pencils For Lori
by Beverly L. Moore
Colored Pencils For Lori
by Beverly L. Moore
Published Dec 22, 2017
89 Pages
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age
Book Details
About
Colored Pencils for Lori
When there's a setback, you regroup, recover, and things find their way back to normalcy. Nothing is ever normal after someone who has been the backbone of a family is suddenly out of the picture. For Lori Brown and her mother, life with its expected comforts were no longer guaranteed. Not since they had to leave their cozy home on a nice piece of property her grandmother owned. That eviction changed everything for Lori and her mother.
One unfortunate event at school in December of 1968, just days before Christmas, has Lori in a tailspin. It is the day of the gift exchange, and she shows up to her fifth-grade class. . . without a gift! Lori finds herself in the throes of what could possibly be the worst day of all her years at the Eldridge Park Elementary School.
Oh, the looks she receives; the sneers she notices when she looks up from her Weekly Reader. Worst yet, are the confrontations she faces throughout the day when she must explain her situation. How does Lori cope with the embarrassment and the shame?
Lori's struggle unearths other secrets. Secrets that Lori would have rather kept concealed. She relies on the help of a friend, her teacher, a guidance counselor, and a very unlikely source, who comes to her rescue at the end of this awful day.
Colored Pencils for Lori can be enjoyed and appreciated by middle school-aged children and their parents. The book deals with the loss of a family member, and how that loss can directly impact the surviving members. The story is heart-warming and humorous. It takes an honest look at real struggles that spill outside of the home and affect children in their school environments.
Colored Pencils for Lori is a work of fiction based on a real event that took place in the author's life.
Beverly L. Moore-Author of
Colored Pencils for Lori