Bette Stevens:  

Bette is from Fort Montgomery, New York. Bette's schools include Highland Falls High School. Bette later attended University of Maine (English and Social Science, BS Education/ Post graduate studies at Chapman University, So. CA) . Bette works(ed) at Self Employed And Loving It! as a published author, Prince William County Public Schools, Eastside Elementary School, Lancaster, Ca, El Camino Middle School, Lompoc CA. Bette's Author Bio: Bette A. Stevens is a retired teacher, a wife, mother of two and grandmother of five. Stevens lives in Central Maine with her husband on their 37-acre farmstead where she enjoys writing, reading, gardening, walking and reveling in the beauty of nature. She advocates for children and childhood literacy and for monarch butterflies, an endangered species. Stevens’s children’s activity book, THE TANGRAM ZOO and WORD PUZZLES TOO!, was first published in 1997 by Windswept House Publishing, Mt. Desert, ME; a second edition was self-published by the author in 2012. AMAZING MATILDA, Stevens's second children's book, self-published in 2012 won a 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (Honorable Mention for Excellence in Children's Literature - Ages 6 and older category) and also placed #9 on The 2013 Gittle List for Self-published Children’s Picture Books. Stevens has written articles for ECHOES, The Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture based in Caribou, Maine. In 2013, the author published her first book for the YA/Adult audience: PURE TRASH: The story, a short story of a boy growing up in rural New England in a family whose poverty and alcoholism mark him as a target for bullying by young and old alike. Bette's debut novel, DOG BONE SOUP, was released in January 2015. Novel summers: Boomers call them The Good Old Days—the 1950s and 60s—a time when America was flying high. An era when The All-American Family lived a life filled with hopes and dreams come true. Shawn Daniels isn't your typical American Boomer boy. Shawn is a poor boy and his father is the town drunk. Shawn's family has no indoor plumb...Expand for more