Charlie, the Canary Who Couldn't Sing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781425757908)

Marie Elmen Upon retiring after working for forty years as an executive secretary, Marie found herself baby sitting a newborn. Boredom soon set in and she started taking correspondence courses with the Children's Institute for Writers and completed them. Wanting to learn even more, she attended Dowling for further study. Marie has written two novels both published by Xlibris. The first was "Jaguar." A story about a boy and the horse he purchases with his college savings without telling his parents. Then he discovers his horse is blind. This is a middle grade book. The other novel is for young adults and is about a family who are devastated to find their father has tuberculosis and the Board of Health wants to pull all the children into foster homes. Their mother vows no-one shall separate her children and she comes up with a unique way to keep them together.