Category: growing up girls
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Sweet Summer
All winter Torrey counted the days until June when the sun was bright, the weather was finally hot enough to wear shorts all the time and with only a few babysitting obligations, she was mostly free to do whatever she wanted. And she was sure this year, the summer between 7th and 8th grades was…
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Mr. Wrong
The metal sound of clanking lockers amid the variable echoing rumble of a thousand adolescent conversations meant one thing… school had begun. After barely surviving middle school, Katie hoped freshman year in high school would be the dawn of a new horizon with endless possibilities. “I’m calling it the great awakening, because I hope it…
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Rules of the Roadtrip:
While traversing the vast regions of the USA on a month long roadtrip in the 70s, my parents had a lot of rules of the road. You can only eat at McDonald’s, Howard Johnson’s or Burger King. My mom believed big corporations and franchises were always reliable. She had no interest in local flavor. We…
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Gabby
Here I am sitting outside the principal’s office once again. It’s only the first week of school, so it didn’t take long. I’m here so often, I have my own special chair, well, at least in my mind it is. I’m not really sure why I always end up here. I have the best intentions.…
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Dancing in the Rain
Growing up is tough. When you’re a cute little baby, adults think everything you say and do is a miracle. Then you get older and you’re way more awkward, trying to find your path in the middle of all the other kids trying to do the same thing. The new kid in school Emmy was…
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I Left A Lot in San Francisco: Tales from the Backseat Episode 7
The difference between being a preteen and a child on a family vacation is like the comparing Mount Everest to the dirt hill kids jump their bikes over. It’s a continental divide. During my preteen years, I wanted to be cool and strived to seem grown-up. And I definitely did not want to act like…
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Shockwave
Author’s Note: Here is a mini sneak peek at a beginning scene from upcoming book 4 in the Timeless American Historical Romance series of books, scheduled to release May 30th and available for preorder at the cover link below. I write romance and mystery books under the name Suzanne Rudd Hamilton. This book features a…
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The First Encounter
Author’s Note: This is an exerpt from An Emerald Homecoming, an upcoming novel from A Timeless American Historical Romance Series. Each day Jackie biked to the beach alone. She sat on the sand, gazing into the infinite golden horizon, searching for the meaning of what happened with her parents’ death by looking into the clouds…
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I Hate Green Beans!
As a kid, I had a very strict rule. I didn’t eat anything green. I was a finicky eater at best, but I just hated the awful taste in my mouth. And to make matters worse, my mother wasn’t a cook. She put everything on the table as best as she could, unfortunately, that meant…
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UnHappily Ever After
You may be familiar with my story. I was a poor orphan forced into servitude, and then, with a twist of fate, fell in love with a prince to live happily ever after. That was the real story. The authors embellished it with fanciful inventions of fairy godmothers and pumpkins turning into carriages. That was…
Growing UP Books by Suzanne Rudd 