LINDA LEE RATTO, EdM
SPECIAL EVENTS...
WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE
...a chapter storybook...
Samples:
WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
Chapter One Old Enough for School
Chapter Two Sarah’s Dreams & Rememberings
Chapter Three Sarah’s Dreams Become Clearer
Chapter Four More Dreams in the Daytime
Chapter Five Grandpoppy Helps with a Plan
Chapter Six The Wait
Chapter Seven Fast Mind, Fast Worker
Chapter Eight The Project
Chapter Nine Grandpoppy
Chapter Ten Auf Wiedersehen, Poppy
Chapter Eleven David & The Seat-With-Wheels
Chapter Twelve Sarah & David’s Good Work
Chapter Thirteen The Real Seat-With-Wheels
Chapter Fourteen The Presentation
Learning German with Sarah
Author’s Note
About the Author
About the Cover
FYI - Resource List - Read, Write, Learn More About It
WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE
Copyright © 2016, 2nd Edition Linda Lee Ratto
Copyright © 2004 Linda Lee Ratto
All rights reserved. Use of any part of this publication without prior written consent of the author is an infringement of the copyright law.
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Bookcover: photo of the painting: “Amish Farm” **
by Martha Elizabeth Linter Wendel
Copyright Ó 2004 David G. Kirchner aka Kirk
**This bookcover is a modest sharing of the spectacular painting, “Amish Farm” by Martha Wendel. We thank David G. Kirchner for allowing this one-time lending of his photo of the work.
WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE
by Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M.
1. Dreams and Reality;
2. Disability—Being Differently-Abled;
3. Death—Coping Skills;
4. Amish Culture, Family, Traditions;
I. Ratto; II. Title: Where Dreams Come True
Reading Level: ages 8up chapterbook;
average newspaper (grade 5 up);
all ages—especially meant to read aloud.
Power ! Press
Atlanta
USA - UK - Australia - India
Where Dreams Come True has true-life details such as the smells and feel of wood-working and homemade foods, common in Amish family culture and also in today's homes. This is an accurate historical fiction, with challenges and struggles surpassed by intelligence and ingenuity - a very America way of looking at our world !
Chapter Four
More Dreams in the Daytime
" “Mama, people who do not like me do not hold me nicely. They are not so gentle. They pull my wagon too fast over deep ruts and large rocks making my trip bumpy enough to tumble my stomach. They are gruff and impatient. I know when someone likes me or does not. Marta makes my Wednesdays hard.” Sarah closed her mouth except to sip her chocolate. She knew she better not say anything more. It was not Amish to not love thy neighbor..."
Later in Chapter Four
"...They were almost to the woodshop when Sarah had the gumption to speak again. “Ya.” Sarah was now afraid to tell Grandpoppy her dreams. What if he thinks this idea in my dream to fly is not Amish? “Grandpoppy, I was just wondering.” She was also thinking what good use the two-wheels-and-stick could be to people.
They entered the woodshop behind Grand-mama’s kitchen. Woods and oils tickled Sarah’s nostrils. Grandpoppy brushed sawdust from the seat of the tallest chair and set Sarah on it. “Today, we continue with our sanding. We sand and oil and sand and oil to make the surface so smooth it is like glass, Sarah.”
“Will the chest be done by Mama’s birthday?” Sarah asked.
“August 15th, ya, we think so. We always sand, smooth and oil seven times before we are done. The pine chest will not have a rough edge anywhere by then, mine sweet granddaughter.” "
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Where Dreams Come True has true-life details such as the smells and feel of wood-working and homemade foods, common in Amish family culture and also in today's homes. This is an accurate historical fiction, with challenges and struggles surpassed by intelligence and ingenuity - a very America way of looking at our world !
