The Twin Pines Kids Mysteries: The Stunning Sequel to "Letters From Grammy"

David Feist follows up ＂Letters From Grammy＂ in time for summer reading. The Feists have now released over 100 books. Visit their website at www.easternwoodsbooks.com. ＂I was born in 1967. At that time, Martin Luther King’s dream was still just that, a dream. I remember my cute sister, sipping her milk in half-day Kindergarten in a news article photo. The piece was written to laud her stellar teacher, renown all throughout West Bethlehem, PA where we grew up. Now, this was a race-relations debacle. The teacher, as with the times, had only progressed as far as the quote she gave to the press: ’We have one black child in the class, and he’s actually learning.’ How Dr. King must have despaired.＂ ＂I lived on after 1969, unlike Dr. King. I grew to become a teacher and within thirty years of Martin’s death, got to see his dream completely realized. Children not just playing together, but arm-in-arm for playground photos. Children best of friends despite race.＂ ＂The Ferguson mess shook me terribly. Why?＂ I asked. ＂But I had lived in the South for fourteen years prior. Ignorance and injustice abounded -distant from the subdivisions I lived in. The Trayvon Martin tragedy occurred while I just gazed on baffled. It was then I realized how widespread ignorance was. In 2014 in the far North, I even heard someone say, ’I saw my first black person when I was 15.’＂ If you are ashamed of ignorance, if you stand firm against ignorance, please purchase and read these two novels. Also, teachers: use these very independent-level reading materials, and their follow-up book report reproducibles, from the novels’ accompanying activity books. Or simply order one copy of the books for read-aloud, the lesson being, simply, civility and getting along. Is six dollars worth that to you and your classes? -Author David Feist