Portia's Incredible Journey

LIFE ISN'T EASY FOR YOUNG PORTIA -- A CHRONIC DISEASE, PARENTS SEPARATING AND BULLYING. "Portia's Incredible Journey" is a page-turning novel about overcoming adversity, family separation, and coming of age told from the point of view of Portia Maddox, an eleven year-old African-American girl. When Portia faces the worst day of her life, she thinks things could not get any worse. But this is just the beginning of an incredible year from having to give herself insulin, to bullying, to the threat of her family breaking up.

Only when Portia understands the words from Grandma Ruth, “Life’s a succession of storms that makes us grow stronger,” can she deal with these difficult challenges that continue to surface.