![]() ![]() Levitin has used travelers' journals and letters from the late 1800s to concoct an event-filled adventure. ![]() Young Amanda tells about their 21-day journey west from Missouri, cramped into a stagecoach with three other adult passengers. Kindergarten-Grade 3?When Pa writes from the California gold fields to say he's lonely, Ma resolves to take her five children and join him. This is what I hope my fiction will provide for my readers, along with entertainment and pleasure. Good fiction informs us about choices and helps us differentiate between what is valuable and what is destructive. I have written several mysteries, because I wonder what leads people into crime. I draw characters from the individuals I have known-my mother, who was courageous and strong, my sisters, acquaintances and friends, some who were wonderful role models, others who betrayed me. “All these feelings and challenges flow into my stories, whether picture books or novels for older readers. I have been the brightest student and also the dullest I have been rejected and also praised for my accomplishments. I have been persecuted, the only Jew in the entire school. I have been an immigrant, an outsider, and lonely in a new land. ![]() Though time and distance may separate me from the event, I can transfer my own feelings-fears and longings- to the characters I am creating. ![]() “Often a newspaper article or a historical event that relates to my own experience triggers my stories. ![]()
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