Robert Otts Belle is a heartwarming story about a young man who finds his fortune, only it turns out to be nothing like what he expected.----At the turn of the century in Texas many came to find a better life. Industry was beginning to boom -- the manufacture of railroads and automobiles was booming and anyone getting in on the ground floor of these miraculous means of transportation had a chance to find their fortune.----Jacob Newsome, a young energetic man begins his journey across count...

Grit—defined as persistence and passion despite obstacles—has received much attention, yet books on this theme often idolize achievements at the expense of mental health. For instance, by the time Ernest Hemingway earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, he had demonstrated true grit by enduring an injury of war, witnessing the Spanish Civil War, and writing fifteen groundbreaking volumes of literature. Yet by 1961, he had divorced three women and died by suicide.This book sh...

Grit—defined as persistence and passion despite obstacles—has received much attention, yet books on this theme often idolize achievements at the expense of mental health. For instance, by the time Ernest Hemingway earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, he had demonstrated true grit by enduring an injury of war, witnessing the Spanish Civil War, and writing fifteen groundbreaking volumes of literature. Yet by 1961, he had divorced three women and died by suicide.This book sh...

When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king, but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart. Each page highlights a different quilt block pattern whose name relates to the unfolding story.

This is a story about a small boy and girl who met on their first day of school. They became very close and if children their young age can fall in love, they were in love. They were separated by a wicked witchs curse and reunited many years later.

This is Ms. Eldering's runner up story in the 2007 Fast and Fanciful contest, a story of two sisters who buy a necklace and fight over it and their lives take turns neither expected.