Author Description

Emma Ward's first published work of fiction targets a reading audience of upper elementary school students. The five stories that make up Secrets deal with five different children, each with his or her own special talent. In fact, the children are based om Ms. Ward's own five grandchildren, and each character's uniqueness is inspired by each of these very real children. That, however, is the point at which fact ends and fiction begins. Enter the world of the children's secrets as thy wield their powers for good in the face of doubting adults, and see how strange the adult world seems to children. Who is to say the children are not the more insightful ones?