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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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I Dream in White

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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. 


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