Maya’s Miracles

About the Book

When Maya’s father goes bankrupt, Maya has to leave her beautiful home and live in a rundown house. She gets a taste of betrayal and shame as she experiences the fickleness of ‘friends’. One day, Maya is just in time to see her dad leave home with a suitcase. Maya wants the space in her mother’s life to be left open for her father’s return, so when her parents divorce, she feels that her father has divorced her too. A half-sister is born and Maya is determined to hate the baby. We follow Maya’s turbulent relationship with her mother as they rediscover each other. With the help of her new friend, Carmen, she discovers the power of prayer and starts to count the ‘miracles’ in her re-arranged family life.

About the Author

Pearl Silverstone has lived on three continents where she has worked as a journalist, TV and radio producer. This includes 18 TV programmes for children. She has a background of working with children’s interactive theatre where she has dealt with a wide spectrum of children including street children. Children are often left to cope on their own with major challenges in life. Unable to find words to describe their emotions, they just get on with their lives—or do they? With this book, Pearl Silverstone hopes to help children (and their adults) cope better with life’s unwanted surprises—together.