Local Authors Past and Present
Work in progress here -- the field is richer than first envisioned. We hope to incorporate past authors (Marianne Moore, Jean Craighead George, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and so on), present authors/illustrators (Amy Bates, Megan Lloyd-Thompson, Adrienne Su, Kim van Alkemade, Sherry Knowlton, and so on), and books from authors who knew the Valley well and wrote about events here (Lois Lenski, Lois Lowry, Conrad Richter, and so on). We will organize them with category headers for better searching and annotate them with the particulars as we work on this. Keep checking!
Full Moon Rising
Full Moon Rising
FULL MOON RISING, BY T.M. BECKER
A father’s neglect. A brother’s betrayal...answers. That’s all Arabella ever wanted. Answers about how to vanquish the recurring nightmares that plague her, or where her mother came from and why she disappeared so many years ago.
To 15-year-old Arabella, the answers must lie in the books her mother left behind when she vanished. But the books are written in an ancient language shrouded in mystery—the language of magic. And in the conquered land of Atruria, magic is forbidden.
Instead of answers, the books offer only more questions—and a death sentence when her brother discovers her secret. Arabella is resigned to her fate, until the lock on her cell door blasts open one night. For though magic has been forbidden in Atruria, it has not been forgotten.
A BIT ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born Tsiphuneah M. Becker, her friends and family call her "Steph." Always a fan of second breakfasts, hobbits, and Grimm’s fairy tales, she spent her childhood afternoons buried in a book or acting out scenes from her imagination in the woods beside her house.
In high school, she discovered theater and began a recording of The Hobbit for her younger siblings, complete with different voices for each character.
Today, T.M. Becker lives in South Central Pennsylvania with her husband and nine children "in a log house full of books, soccer gear, and perpetually mismatched socks."