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Author Shelia Lipsey will be visiting Craigmont High School for our Writers in Winters Series, Wednesday, February 12, 2014 from 9am-1:30pm. English classes are invited to attend. She will be speaking throughout the day in the library about her young adult novel House of Cars. Please review her brief bio, summary and reviews at shelialipsey.com before the visit. Books will be available for only $6.00 dollars for students and teachers.

About House of Cars

Fourteen year old high school freshman Nyl Person is the boy every freshman girl at Fairley High would like to call boyfriend. He is popular, cute and one of the leading players on the high school varsity basketball team. Sierra James with her thick locks of natural hair and the captain of the Fairley High cheerleading squad, is pretty, smart and the most popular girl in ninth grade, and she has a mission to make Nyl her boyfriend. Nyl likes her too and would jump at the chance to have Sierra as his girlfriend. But it isn’t so easy for Nyl because he has a secret that no one at Fairley knows about which is Nyl, his little sister and his father have practically been living in the family Yukon since the death of his mom. What will happen if his secret comes out? What will he do? What about the girl he wants to make his girlfriend, Sierra James. Can she fall for a homeless boy when she practically lives in the lap of luxury?Read House of Cars by Author Shelia Lipsey to find out.

Calling All WiseTeens/Tweens ages 12-18 are invited and encouraged to attend the Wise Teens event sponsored by the Memphis Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Youth Speak Mid-South members please sign in at this event as a Youth Speak Mid-South Participants.

 

 

Parents this is for you. Get educated while your Tweens and Teens are being enriched.

We Can All Decorate the Same Tree Sisters in Unity Extravaganza 2013

Speak To Me Books and Youth Speak Mid-South founder Jeanine Jones united with like minds and visionaries of A Belle That Cares Out Reach founder Rashida Patterson and My Leading Young Lady/My Leading Young Man founder Jaria Sharkey to form Sisters in Unity Co-Op. These organizations share a commitment to serve the community. Please join us on our first official commitment to serve event at  The We Can All Decorate the Same Tree Sisters in Unity Extravaganza & Enchanted Forest Friday, December 13, 2013 4-7:30 pm at the Hickory Hill Community Center. Although we have worked together and supported one another several times before this time we are coming together in the name of Sisters in Unity Co-Op to inspire, uplift & encourage the community that we live in, serve and love.

Vendor Form/Festival of Trees Form Click Below

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