The tornado struck Joplin, Missouri in May of 2011. In the years that followed the recovery and all of the relief efforts in which we were involved, I wrote a fictionalized account of the event. Ten years ago, I held the published book in my hands for the first time. I was privileged to be able to read my own book aloud to several classes of my fourth graders, and they always seemed to react well to it. Pretty soon, I was reading to students who had no memory of the event. The book is written from the points of view of five individuals and is as close to my own experiences as possible. Along those lines, this is a great memoir of the event with the church in a central role of serving. It is a story of faith - both lost and found - a story of the resilience that emerged out of the wind of the storm. |
I loved the entire process of developing this book. The reading level for this one is at the third grade level, but Out of the Wind was written for everyone. You can still get this book delivered to your front porch when you order it through Amazon.
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