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Local Author Wins Children’s Book Award
Announcement that local fiction author Wendelin Gray won a children's book award for her novel and has a new educational project.
Local author Wendelin Gray recently won the 2016 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award Bronze for Young Adult Fiction E-book for her 2015 ghost story, The Haunting at Ice Pine Peak. The story is a fantasy set in fictional world based on the cultures of the Silk Road, especially East Asian countries, and it features a group of twenty-year-olds who are staying in an abandoned villa in the mountains that turns out to be haunted. The young adults then have to unravel the mystery of what happened to cause the villa to be abandoned sixty years before and find the source of the hauntings, which is rooted in the villa’s history as a temple four hundred years earlier. The book is suitable for ages 13 to adult and is available in both print and e-book editions on Amazon.com.
Details on Wendelin Gray’s new educational project, the Online Korean Studies Certification Program created for private students and small groups via video conferencing, can be found here: