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Author Event: Katherine Schlick Noe - Something to Hold

Start: 04/14/2012 3:00 pm

Author Reading & Book Signing
Katherine Schlick Noe, author of
"Something to Hold"
Saturday,April 14th, 2012

3:00pm at the White Salmon Library

Co-Sponsored by the White Salmon Library

Waucoma Bookstore and White Salmon Library are hosting author Katherine Schlick Noe for a book reading and signing at 3:00pm on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 at the White Salmon Library (77 NE Wauna Ave., White Salmon, WA 98672) Noe will be discussing her children's novel "Something to Hold", which was inspired by her childhood experiences living on the Warm Springs Reservation.

About the Book
It's 1962 and Kitty has just turned eleven when Dad's government job moves the family all the way across the country to the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon. She knows how to be "the new kid," but it's a whole new kind of starting over this time.

At first the Indian kids are standoffish, even hostile. Despite her discomfort, Kitty notices how some white people, including the teachers, treat them with casual contempt. As she gets to know her classmates and to glimpse their rich heritage, Kitty comes to respect their strength and generosity that some around her ignore.

Friendships and allegiances, mischief, baseball, mourning, humiliation, the courage to speak out against injustice -- all are woven into Kitty's growing season at Warm Springs.

About the Author
Katherine Schlick Noe teaches in the Master in Teaching Program and directs the Literacy for Special Needs graduate program at Seattle University. Dr. Noe is co-author of four books on literature circles for teachers and is web master of the Literature Circles Resource Center. Something to Hold is her first novel. She lives in Seattle, WA, and is the daughter of local Columbia Gorge writer Mary Schlick.

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