July 06, 2001 • Page Image 101
…wore a striped shirt. And he has curly hair like my husband (Sam) did when he was young." She decided to focus her second story on street smarts, and her second on gun safety after the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. "Plus you hear about shootings all the time in the news; it's devastating." Each time, she wrote one version, then rewrote it and rewrote it again. "It [the first book] started as a more complicated story, bu...…

















































