DILLO - A Baby Armadillo''s Adventure on Sanibel Island, by Kyle L. Miller, Illustrated by Randon T. Eddy, is a 2009 Eric Hoffer Awards, Legacy Fiction, runner-up.
The book also placed on the short list in the da Vinci Awards for best book cover art.
As an Eric Hoffer Award Winner, Dillo was described in US Review of Books: "Each chapter is dedicated not only to advancing the story, but learning about the animals native to South Florida.The story contains enough action and suspense to keep the kids interested and enough focus on ecology and animal preservation to keep any environmentalist happy. Dedicated to her grandchildren, the book has the feel of a trusted grandmother sharing what she knows with the children of the world. The illustrations are wonderfully bright and colorful, focusing on realism rather than cartoonish."
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun
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