BLUE
Middle Grade Novel -- coming out soon
An 11-year-old mystic must learn to speak her truth no matter what people think.
Maisie-Grace LaForet is a dreamer of nightmares that come true, a girl who can hear the voice of the forest. The only place she doesn’t have to hide is with her best friend, a tree named Blue, in an old growth forest where the 11-year-old has spent most of her life.
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Maisie faces a tough choice. Her mother wants her to leave the forest and go school after a lifetime of homeschooling to become “socialized”. But Maisie feels she’s got plenty of socialization with the animals, the clouds, the trees.
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A terrible dream seals the girl’s fate -- loggers are coming to cut down the forest. The dream comes true – they always do – and she gets the landlord to spare Blue. She knows she has to try to save the rest of the forest, too. She has to go to school.
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Rules, and noise, and bullies, and too many kids. She’s highly sensitive and wades through school in a fog. An unlikely bond forges between Maisie, JAX, a quadriplegic artist, and a farm girl named Macon. An activist teacher sends them on an adventure into Maisie’s forest. After a failed attempt to save the forest, Maisie decides to quit school. What’s the use? Nothing she says or does makes any difference.
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Then it gets worse. A tragic misunderstanding takes away any hope Maisie-Grace has left.
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Will Maisie stop pretending? Will she speak her truth? Will she allow people to see she's a mystic.
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Illustrations for Blue
As part of my writing process, I felt compelled to illustrate my characters. I'm planning to use these images in a children's picture book.
