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The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson a YA Novel
by Teen Author: Randall Barnes

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Randall Barnes - The diary of Aaliyah

The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson
a YA Novel

by Teen Author:
Randall Barnes

 

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Meet Aaliyah Anderson, a beautiful, intelligent, ambitious thirteen-year-old young woman ready to take over the world. With her mom being a superstar broadcast journalist and her older brother Damon being an acclaimed writer and star sports player. Aaliyah lives a fantastic life. Aaliyah quickly learns that her good life, doesn’t separate her from life’s problems. She has to deal with tons of hardships and avoid many obstacles along her path to achieving her short term goal of finally making it to high school and what she feels will bring her closer to her dreams of being a CEO of a company.

Aaliyah has to deal with overwhelming family issues such as the divorce of her parents and the result of her “father’s” unfaithfulness, infidelity, and a family secret that turns her world upside down. As if her family wasn’t messed up enough, her eleven-year old brother turns to the streets and joins the Eastside Rydahz, one of the most notorious gangs in the city. Her eldest brother Jeffery, or high-ranked Rydah 808, hates everything about Aaliyah and she doesn’t understand it. All Aaliyah wants is to have the ideal loving, united family and it hurts her that their situation is seemingly fractured beyond repair.

To make things even more pressing, she lives in the ruthless city of Willowsfield, statistically the #1 most dangerous city in America, where senseless community violence is the norm and life expectancy is low. With the pressure to succeed and make it out of the ditch that Aaliyah calls her hometown, she still has to deal with more problems that test her patience.

With its realistic characters, life-like setting and dynamic message, The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson is entertaining and a sure fire conversation starter on what we need to do as a generation.

 

 

Meet The Author: Randall Barnes

Randall BarnesRandall Barnes is an eighteen year old author, internet radio personality, public speaker and mentor who currently resides in Macon, GA. Randall is already renowned for his positive, realistic, moral driven writings. His first novel The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson has garnered over 46,000 reads on Wattpad.com and universal acclaim. He writes for the popular news website Urban Intellectuals, the relationship blog Courting Her and literary blog Straight, No Chaser. Randall is also the author of the eShort Riverview High: Circumstances, which hit number #2 on the Amazon charts in the week of its debut.

Randall is currently a senior at William S. Hutchings College & Career Academy. Along with being a talented writer, Randall also has the gift of public speaking. He won first place in the FBLA Region 5 Public Speaking Competition in January of 2013. Randall also was also the first student in history to represent Hutchings in the Rotary Club Speech Contest. The best has yet to come for this young man. Look out!

Connect with Randall:

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“The Diary Of Aaliyah Anderson” Book Links:

– Amazon –Barnes & Noble –DC Bookdiva Publications –

 

 

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Empower Your Kids with: Yoga Basics for Kidz

child author, children's health, Healthy activities, Overcoming Challenges, Parent Guide, Stress reduction, teen author, Yoga

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Yoga Basics for Kidz

Are you looking for a way to connect with your kids?  Do you wish there was something you could do to get the kids in your life to try, maybe even like, yoga?  Now there is.  With Yoga Basics for Kidz you are introduced to the absolute best way to share yoga with the kids in your life.

Written by a teenager who has used yoga to get through the good and the bad, this book is easy to understand, non-threatening, and even a bit fun.  Hailed by yoga teachers as being “easy to understand” and “a great way to write about yoga” it is a must have in your library.

Whether you work with kids in schools, day care centers, yoga studios, or at home this book is guaranteed to help you find interesting and fun ways to introduce yoga poses and postures to the kids in your life.

This book has over a dozen illustrated poses, complete with descriptions written in language even the youngest kids can understand.  She even included an FAQ section, glossary, and a couple of really cool tracking sheets in the back for kids to use to see if they’re making progress.

 

About the Author:  Hannah Hoobyar

Hannah, otherwise known as Yoga Bear, has been an active child her entire life. After some traumatic experiences in her young childhood Hannah turned to Yoga as a way to help calm herself and deal with the stresses of life. If it weren’t for yoga Hannah would have had a much more difficult time getting through some of her challenges. Moving forward as she grew and matured she found yoga offered her a calmness in the face of daily challenges of being a kid…friends, school, homework, etc. She often uses yoga to calm herself before a test, to stay in control of her emotions throughout the trials and tribulations of middle school, and to keep her body in top shape for her competitive dance.
People who know her consider her to possess a unique energy that draws others in. Her personality is infectious, she can make you smile just by sharing a room with you. Her heart is very giving, and it is that giving nature that drives her to create her website and share yoga with others. She hopes to create a DVD of some basic yoga that she used when she was young and share that with other young children who are dealing with traumatic issues in their lives.  Yoga has changed her life and she is hoping to share that with others.

 

Get the Book: http://yogaforkidz.com/book-launch/
The Book on Amazon
Author Website URL – www.yogaforkidz.com
Facebook URL – www.facebook.com/yogaforkidz
Twitter ID- @yogaforkidz

 

 

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