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A Tiny Piece of Blue
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Journeys to Authorship
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The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
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Threads A Depression Era Tale
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A Tiny Piece of Blue
During the throes of the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Silstice Grayson finds herself homeless, abandoned by her parents. Nearby, aging midwestern farmers Edna and Vernon Goetaz are pillars of the community, but when do-gooder Edna takes up Solstice's cause, Vernon dies in his heels. Theirs is a quiet seeming community, but danger lurks beneath the bucolic facade and Silstice and her two spirited young brother soon find themselves in the sights of a ring of kidnappers and their lives go awry.
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Charlotte Whitney grew up on a Midwest farm much like the one in my novels. She has authored two nonfiction books and three historical novels, set in the rural midwest during the Great Depression. They include, A Tiny Piece of Blue, The Unveiling of Polly Forrest, and Threads A Depression Era Tale. Before writing full-time, she was Associate Director of University of Michigan’s Lloyd Scholars for Writing and Arts.
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A TINY PIECE OF BLUE
2025 American Fiction Awards Winner-
Historical Fiction
2025 IPPY Gold Medal- Historical Fiction
2025 Hawthorne Prize Finalist.
THE UNVEILING OF POLLY FORREST
2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards
Semi-Finalist
2023 National Indie Excellence Awards
Finalist Mystery
2022 American Fiction Awards
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THREADS A DEPRESSION ERA TALE
2020 Quarter-finalist in the Publishers Weekly Booklife Fiction Contest
2020 Honorable Mention in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards
2020 Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize
2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards-Honorable Mention
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A Tiny Piece of Blue
Rural MIchigan, 1934
When thirteen-year-old Silstice Trayson is abandoned by her family after a devastating house fire she must make her way in a seemingly cruel and heartless world. Nevertheless there is hope in the tiny rural community despite seemingly impossible odds. Rich with images of farm life, 4-H clubs and a county fair.
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The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
Rural Michigan 1934
During the Great Depression milliner Polly Forrest marries for money. But when her new husband dies in a bizarre farm accident all evidence points to her.
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Threads A Depression Era Tale
It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes the of the Great Depression. But when young Nellie, digging for pirate treasure, discovers the tiny hand of a dead baby, rumors begin to fly.