Sulphur Matches and Moriah's Ghost

About the Book

This novel is about a young Cheyenne Native-American girl named Crissy Levi who loves her family and her numerous pet animals. Arriving in Oklahoma from California to live with her Grandparents on their farm, she must learn new things about her Native-American culture and her new rural-American culture. But beyond this challenge she becomes aware of her Grandmother Marmi’s deepest spiritual belief that all that happens is God’s way of “growing” his people.

About the Author

Dorothea Paulks live in Oklahoma where she manages her farm, writes and paints. Retirement from career in teaching language arts and in hospital nursing freed time to write. She has published five books at Xlibris since retiring. Sulphur Matches is her fourth novel and her first juvenile book. Adapted from the adult novel, courtesy of Andrew Carnegie, it focuses on the six-year-old Crissy instead of adult characters. She has been writing and publishing since the late sixties: clapbooks, shortstories, articles and one play which Pueblo Press published in 1980. She received her MA in writing from UCO in 1974.