Marva A. from Chesapeake, VA

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours, (Henry David Thoreau). The passion I possess from reading and writing began when I read “Little House in the Big Woods” by Laura Ingalls Wilder while I was in the second grade. I enjoyed the class weekly visit to the school library and I ensured I chose a different book written by Laura Ingalls Wilder during her childhood. While