In Search of Kindness

About the Book

A foster thirteen year old girl and her little sister are separated after their father dies and their mother goes into diabetic coma.

She is moved to a small community to live. In school she meets three boys who asked her to join their Gang. She agrees and they skip school to go into the wilderness. In a TRAP the boys had set earlier, is a Lynx mother cat. A game warden questions them. The students scatter in different directions. The girl runs and becomes lost. It takes two days before she is located and saved.

About the Author

Betsy Francois is the well-known author and impression illustrator of the children’s pictures: There' s A Roadrunner in the Honeysuckle Bush, The Horse who Thinks she' s a Cat and two young people' s novels: The Blunders of the Patriarch and In Search of Kindness. Her latest book SURVIVING the LA SALLE EXPEDITION is told through Marie-Madeleine Talon' s point of view, the only surviving female. Betsy lives in Socorro, New Mexico. She began her writing career in 1991 taking a four-year correspondent course with The Institute of Children.