Magically Acquainted - Burbank, Claire

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Résumé :
Sky and Nora are mystical creatures on a whole new grade level. They are unprepared for what is coming up next. How could a unicorn and a mermaid go to the same school, you ask? You'll just have to find out. Sky is a unicorn and is very shy. She is bullied by a rude fairy named Felicia Dankie. She tries to make Sky look uncool which is the thing she most feared--or so she thought. She later found out that losing her best friend was the scariest thing she could ever know. Nora is a mermaid and is very outgoing. She runs into a catty seahorse that is very sassy. This seahorse pushes her limits and even makes the outgoing mermaid cry. Join Sky and Nora as they try to solve the problem by making potions, fooling the bullies, and just talking it out. What will finally make the bullies stop?

Biographie:
Claire Burbank is 12 years old & lives with her family in Nottingham. I always knew I had a passion for writing. In any free time I get, I think, I want to write! There are three reasons I do: 1. It's really fun to tell my own fictional stories with details, drama & comedy. 2. I want to publish my books so the world can read them and enjoy them. 3. I want people to know the important issue of bullying but have a good time learning about it in a fun way It all started back in third grade when I made a little book about bullying. (Available on iTunes, just search Claire Burbank) It was about this girl named Amelda and she gets bullied. She gets teased about her appearance and how she was different from the others. I had watched many movies about bullying and had seen some people get bullied and didn't even realize it. I wanted to make up for all of those times I didn't stand up for the other person and those times I might have been apart of the teasing by writing a little book. It probably took me about ten minutes to write this little 7 paged picture book. I brought it to my classroom and showed it to my guidance counselor, who was the person it was dedicated to. She recognized my care for bullying and put it on the school website. When it was taken down for the next piece of news to be shown, I wanted people to keep viewing it. So, I decided to publish it along with the help of my dad and his many IT director friends. It was a long process, but we ended up publishing it on iTunes, and I wanted to keep writing. So, I decided to make and publish more books about bullying, realistic fiction or not so realistic fiction. I currently have published 9 books, I have worked really hard on all of these books, I appreciate it and hope it helps Stop Bullying.