Sara is just another group home kid. She’s given up on being part of a family and has planned out her life as a child of the system. Then she wakes on her fifteenth birthday, with ruby red streaks through her now midnight black hair and strange powers she did not know she possessed. Enrolling in classes at the San Francisco Center for the Circus Arts, she meets strangers with frightening powers who say they are family, with a four thousand year old god as a common ancestor. As Sara … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Phoenix Child by Alica McKenna Johnson
Interview with Author – Alica McKenna Johnson
About Alica McKenna Johnson: Being told she was a horrible speller and would never learn to use a comma correctly, Alica never thought to write down the stories she constantly had running through her head. Doesn’t everyone daydream about flying on a spaceship while walking to school? Not until she was thirty did Alica dare to write down any of the people living exciting lives in her head. The relief was instantaneous. By giving them life on the page they could be released from her mind and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Alica McKenna Johnson
