Choose to Be Brave

Surfer Chick

Surfer Chick is stoked that her superstar surfer dad is going to teach her how to surf.  She is nervous and a little scared that she will not be a great surfer, but when she chooses to be brave, Chick learns that she might be totally awesome after all!

I met author Kristy Dempsey when I was presenting at the CERRA Induction Symposium a few weeks ago.  Her book Surfer Chick was published in May of 2012, and it is a beautiful book with an inspirational story for our youngest students.  Kristy is a native of South Carolina, and is now living in Brazil with her family.  She is also a teacher and next year will be her first year as a librarian!  How cool to have your own librarian be an author!  

I was so excited when Kristy mentioned that she offers free Skype visits!  She will visit with your class through Skype for 15 minutes for free or 45 minutes for $50 to talk about her books and the writing process.  Of course the time difference could pose a problem so if you cannot work out a good time, she will accept questions from your class and send you a video response.  Check out the trailer for her book and follow her on Twitter @kristydempsey