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Three Voices of Summer
Tommy's Before Summer Ends
Amanda's Grandma Pleasant
Franklin's Summer Passage
 by
 Vonda Frampton
        About the Author
   Vonda Frampton's greatest pleasure is spending time with her family. She and her husband, Bruce, have lived in El Paso, Texas for twenty-six years.
   Vonda was secretary of the El Paso Writer's League for two years and currently publishes the League's newsletter, The Inkslinger. Her writing has received numerous awards and special recognition. She studied with the Famous Writers School and has taken several creative writing classes at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her poem, The Cost of a Single Day was published in 2007 by Mesilla Valley Press, and appeared in their Las Cruces Poets and Writers Magazine.
   Ms. Frampton believes that although continuing education classes are helpful, it is her opinion that an excellent way for a writer to improve her is to find a critique group whose members are not afraid to voice honest opinions.
    Three Voices of Summer is her first published book. Her next novella is titled Defining Zach.
 
    To purchase her book, please contact her thru her email:

  vondaframpton@gmail.com   
Back Cover
    Three summers, three ways of coping with loss, and three very different children trying to discover who they are highlight these coming-of-age stories.
    In Before Summer Ends, ten-year old Navajo, Tommy Begay, is determined to find the father he's never known.  While helping out at a camp for special-needs children, (his penance for running away), Tommy meets a white girl battling cancer.  Kenzie McIntyre's courage in facing her illness gives Tommy the strength to follow his own path.
   Twelve-year-old Amanda's first job in the sixties is to keep track of her grandmother who suffers from dementia.  In Grandma Pleasant, Amanda learns some of life's lessons from the disoriented woman who  unknowingly teaches her granddaughter patience and how it feels to be lost within your mind.
   Franklin Johansson realizes the world doesn't revolve around him after his mother goes ballistic one night and takes over the boys-only tree house the next day.  Franklin's world is turned upside down his fifteenth summer after the death of his best friend and Franklin's experience with first love.  His family makes life a journey of mishaps as well as triumphs during Franklin's Summer of Passage and opens his eyes to the adult world he thought he was ready for.