Books with author Emma L. Price

LIFE ISN'T EASY FOR YOUNG PORTIA -- A CHRONIC DISEASE, PARENTS SEPARATING AND BULLYING. Portia's Incredible Journey is a page-turning novel about surmounting adversity, family separation, and coming of age for eight-to twelve-year-olds. Boys and girls will cheer Portia on as she confronts this year of challenges. One day at school, Liz, the fourth grade bully, shook her chubby fist so close to Portia's face that she could smell the sweat on it. Tell anyone I was in Nurse Bryant's office and you'll be sorry, Liz threatened. I'll give you a black eye. Later, Mom and Dad sat Portia down at the kitchen table and told her she has to learn to give herself insulin. She is desperately afraid of needles. But every day, eleven year-old Portia must deal with type 1 diabetes. As if this wasn't enough, Portia's heart sinks when Mom tells her...we decided that a separation would be the best thing for right now. It'll give us time to sort things... How could life be so unfair?

LIFE ISN'T EASY FOR YOUNG PORTIA -- A CHRONIC DISEASE, PARENTS SEPARATING AND BULLYING. "Portia's Incredible Journey" is a page-turning novel about overcoming adversity, family separation, and coming of age told from the point of view of Portia Maddox, an eleven year-old African-American girl. When Portia faces the worst day of her life, she thinks things could not get any worse. But this is just the beginning of an incredible year from having to give herself insulin, to bullying, to the threat of her family breaking up.Only when Portia understands the words from Grandma Ruth, “Life’s a succession of storms that makes us grow stronger,” can she deal with these difficult challenges that continue to surface.

YOUNG PORTIA DEALS WITH BLENDED FAMILY AND SIBLING RIVALRY. Twelve-year-old Portia Maddox is thrilled to learn she has a sixteen-year-old sister, Jasmine. But from the moment Jasmine sets eyes on Portia, she does everything in her power to derail what she thinks is Portia's perfect life. Portia is desperate to stop the cruel pranks and to keep her diabetes a secret, for that would fuel the cruelest prank of all. Can Portia find a way to end the attacks, or even win Jasmine over?

YOUNG PORTIA DEALS WITH BLENDED FAMILY AND SIBLING RIVALRY. Twelve-year-old Portia Maddox is thrilled to learn she has a sixteen-year-old sister, Jasmine. But from the moment Jasmine sets eyes on Portia, she does everything in her power to derail what she thinks is Portia's perfect life. Portia is desperate to stop the cruel pranks and to keep her diabetes a secret, for that would fuel the cruelest prank of all. Can Portia find a way to end the attacks, or even win Jasmine over?