Dear Wild Child MIDDLE GRADE finds out that his fifteen-year-old

finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter

and muddling through each new concern

From the orchestra pit to the prop table to the dressing rooms

He discusses the need for adolescent rebellion as embodied in John Grimes in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

how he learned to read and write

Dear Wild Child MIDDLE GRADE finds out that his fifteen-year-oldA story inspired by a letter from a father to his daughter about wildfire, loss, and learning that we carry our homes inside us wherever we go In the shade of ancient redwood trees, by a creek, not far from the ocean, a father builds a house for his newborn daughter, where she grows up wild and strong in their coastal canyon home. When a wildfire takes back their beloved house, a father writes his now grown daughter a letter telling her its gone.