A To Z Challenge: BOOK NOOK REVIEWS "A"

Title:  Abbie Against The Storm
Author:  Marcia Vaughan
Illustrator: Bill Farnsworth
Publisher:  Beyond Words Publishing
Ages: 7-9

Synopsis:

Abbie Burgess helps her father care for a lighthouse on a small island off the coast of Maine. When Abbie’s mother becomes ill, her father must sail to the mainland to find food and medicine. Seventeen-year-old Abbie will be left alone to care for the lighthouse that guides so many ships to safety. 

Why you should read it: 

I have always been fascinated with lighthouses and now that I’m beginning to write creative nonfiction stories, this story about a real life lighthouse keeper caught my interest. Award winning author Marcia Vaughan creates a powerful visual tale of life as a lighthouse keeper during the 19^th century. Readers will wonder how Abbie will be able to keep her family safe after the biggest storm of the century comes between her and the only thing saving the ships at sea from crashing on the rocks below her home.


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Blurb:

Addie comes from a long line of readers or "story catchers" as her family likes to call themselves. Every time Addie tries to catch a story on her own the wiggly words play tricks on her. She tries different ways to make those words sit still but it will take a little faith for Addie to become the next STORY CATCHER.

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Flash Fiction Friday

Please Come Back To Me

by Donna L Martin

They warned her about returning but she wouldn't listen. She couldn't. Her mind knew the waiting had been too long. They said he was probably lost with his ship and yet her heart refused to give up. For days she had waited, there by the shore, searching the horizon for some speck of hope to float across the waves and return her love to her.  But as weeks turned into months the silence began to engulf her.  

That's when the dreams began.  At first just mist and moonlight and the hint of a whispered voice calling out for her to come to him. A voice so soft and velvety as it touched her, teasing her with a hunger to hold onto his arms once more until she thought she would go mad with the longing. She could tell no one about those dreams. They already thought her mad.  But she knew he was waiting there for her and so she found her way back to the lighthouse. Back to the place where all their dreams began and ended. Back to the place where in her dreams he told her to meet him.

As she made her way up the long winding stairs in the moonlight she could make out a shadow, there is the doorway and she knew he had finally come back for her. They had told her to abandon all hope but her heart simply couldn't let go. She had long since given up knowing what was real and what was fantasy. All she could think of after all these years was that her love had returned...

***Okay, it's your turn!  What happens next?  Is the shadow her long lost love or  just a figment of her imagination?  Can a love having waited this long be rewarded or has she simply lost her mind?  Put your creative cap on and add a sentence or add a paragraph.  Continue my story or start one of your own.  Join the fun and see where this picture prompt takes u