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The Harrington family has settled into a new home in Seattle's Queen Anne Hill district, but things aren't going well.
Adrian doesn't fit in at her new school. Because she easily gets such good grades, the other students torment her and call her "Adrian Einstein." When she makes mistakes on purpose to quiet their teasing, her grades drop. Her parents are disappointed with her and Adrian is miserable. How can she ever enjoy school again?
Meanwhile, Alice's fiancé joins the military and leaves for basic training as Japan's armies become more aggressive in Asia. Things in the nation look grim.
Frank is challenged as to how to stand up for his Japanese-American friends when the other boys at school blame them for things they are innocent of doing. Will Frank speak up for the Wakamutsus? Or will he keep quiet in order to be accepted by the guys in Queen Anne Hill?
The full-time writer is the author of over 50 published books under her own name and also scores of ghostwritten books.
Her books have been favorably reviewed in Affair de Coeur, Coffee Time Romance, Romance Reader at Heart, and The Romance Studio magazines, and her short fiction has garnered a number of first prizes in local writing contests.
Norma Jean is the founder of the Professionalism in Writing School, which was held annually in Tulsa for fourteen years. This writers' conference, which closed its doors in 1996, gave many writers their start in the publishing world.
A gifted teacher, Norma Jean has taught a variety of writing courses at local colleges and community schools, and is a frequent speaker at writers' seminars around the country. For ten years, she taught on staff for the Institute of Children's Literature. She has served as artist-in-residence at grade schools, and for two years taught a staff development workshop for language arts teachers in schools in Northeastern Oklahoma.
In 2010, she made the decision (along with many other authors) to leave the world of traditional publishing and become an indie author. Even though the learning curve was as she puts it "straight up," it was a decision she has never regretted. As she says, "Having the last say in my cover art and story content is pure joy to this author."
Her titles can be found here: njnotations.myshopify.com
