Soft science fiction. When a devastating epidemic strikes a colony of Earthlings on a distant planet, Lily Reynolds, age eleven, finds herself the oldest one of twelve survivors. She and the other children live with the hope that a promised starship will come to rescue them. Then tragedy strikes again as the youngest child disappears. Those who remain, grow up completely cut off from other human beings. Only the mystical Mansions of Karma, which appear in the sky periodically, remind the young … [Read more...] about Mansions of Karma by Ruth White @kidlitwriter
Diary of a Wildflower by Ruth White
Ruth White bases her novel on her own mother’s early years in the Virginia mountains. Emerging from a heartbreaking childhood, Lorelei leaves Starr Mountain. As a teenager in the roaring twenties, she is dazzled by the carefree world of flappers and bobbed hair, the Charleston and the IT girl, Prohibition, and the notorious speakeasies. Most important she finds men who are handsome, well-bred, well-educated, and reek of old money. As a mere wildflower, she doubts she can ever compete with the … [Read more...] about Diary of a Wildflower by Ruth White
