The Ghosts of Rosewood Lane

by Gerald Helland

Overview

The year was 1954 and 13 yearl old Seth Crandell was already having a bad day. With just one week to go before his fourteenth birthday, Seth had no idea how quickly and permanently his life could change - not for the worse, but just change.

All he did was go to school that morning, like any other day, But, something happened that day that made him see things and people differently. Then his life began to weave and churn in all sorts of odd directions when he became friends with Haddie, the girl who everyobody made fun of and nobody ever talked to.

Seth was sure glad he was no longer like everybody else.

For the rest of the fall school term, Seth and Haddie discovered all sorts of things - about themselves, their famlieis, their community, friendship and especially that things aren't always as you are led to believe - even ghosts!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013458895
Publisher:	Gold Leaf Press
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Gerald Helland grew up in the small farming community of Capac, Michigan and now live in the small town of St. Clair, Michigan with his wife, Genevieve.

He became a writer because he loves books and telling stories. He has two people to thank for making that possible. The first is his late grandfather, Robert Elliott. He was the storyteller in the family. Gerald sat with him as a boy listening to him tell one of his stories – he held on to every word as he traveled to a far-away place. So he says, "Thank you, Grandpa, for all the wonderful stories and for helping me to never stop dreaming."

The other person Gerald thanks is the late Mary C. Burnell. When he first met Mary, she was living in his mother's adult foster care home. She was a retired school teacher who wrote a pictorial history on Port Huron, Michigan and the St. Clair River.

When she met Gerald, he was nineteen years old, and could hardly read or write. He had no self-confidence. He just didn’t think I was smart enough to learn.

It started when he was a young boy. He was so shy he wouldn’t ask any questions in class. As a result, he fell behind and never caught up. He was put in a class for children with learning disabilities, which didn’t do much good. He felt embarrassed about being in the class and thought he didn’t measure up to the other children. He never passed a grade to go to the next grade, but was always placed in the next grade, even though he could barely read or write. HIgh school was no different. He went to a vocational school called the Skill Center where he took the Foods program.

One day, while talking to one of the teachers, Gerald noticed the class list in his teacher's hand. He saw that his name had an "H" by it. He asked what it meant and was told it was because he was handicapped. It's easy to see why Gerald felt so badly about himself.

But that all changed when he met Mary Burnell. She made him believe in himself, and for the first time in his life, he felt he was smart enough to learn. He started reading children’s books and before long, he could read as well as anyone else. It is his love for books that inspired him to write, and it is his child-like imagination that inspires him to write such engaging tales.

Gerald has been writing books for the past ten years and will continue writing books for at least another ten years.