Introduction What if the people we lost could return for one conversation, not to say goodbye again, but to tell us how they really felt?In Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore, a father and his three children live on a remote island near Antarctica, protecting a seed vault containing some of the world's most precious plant species.The ocean is rising. … [Read more...] about Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy: Characters Speak
grief and healing
The Last Letter from Grandpa
Emmie:I never expected to find him again—not like this. Not in a dusty attic, not in a box with my name on it.My grandfather was the quiet kind. He didn’t say much, but when he did, you listened. He taught me how to skip rocks, how to drive stick, and how to sit with silence without needing to fill it. He gave me butterscotch candies, warm hugs that smelled like … [Read more...] about The Last Letter from Grandpa