It's all rich grist for a keen-eyed young writer's mill, as Charlie learns that the best material comes not from exciting travels and circumstances, but from journeys to new places inside herself. And then there's the mystery of the Chocolate Moose Man, an almost mythical figure who turned up at her mother's funeral thirteen years before.

As revelation upon revelation builds, she discovers the unthinkable: Kerry is her half-brother and the man she's always taken to be her father isn't after all. Then she falls for Kerry, a handsome local hunk, and wants to tell him how she feels. For one thing, she agrees to compete in the gruelling Four Islands Race. Instead, she steps into a series of unexpected adventures that will alter her view of what seemed a dull and tedious existence. She decides to spend the summer with her grandmother on remote Lake Ringrose in northern Ontario, where she thinks she can laze on a hammock all summer and get in touch with her mother's roots. That she doesn't want to spend her summer with her father's girlfriend and her triplets, That her blow-up at her tactless creative writing teacher must have contributed to his heart attack,

Sixteen-year-old Charlie, an ambitious and dedicated writer who thinks her small-town life doesn't offer any material for her work, is sure of three things:

Not her father, the boy she likes, or even the mysterious man from her mother's funeral. No one is who they seem to be in Charlie's world. She returned to the Waldorf community as a mother when her son, who is now an adult and Woodwork assistant at WSSD, began his first school experience in Parent-Tot classes at Acorn Hill Waldorf School.Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007 Stussi’s relationship to Waldorf education reaches back to her grade school years as a student at the Washington Waldorf School. Stussi worked as an English Teacher and Educational Support teacher in a small community Waldorf School in Brazil, her paternal country of Origin. Stussi worked as an Educational Support teacher at WSSD conducting Extra Lesson classes. Prior to becoming a class teacher in 2009, Ms. She received her Waldorf teacher training both in Brazil and in Washington, DC, at the Nova Institute.

She has her certification in Educational Support from the Association for Healing Education. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Education from George Washington University with a specialization in teaching English Language Learners. Stussi has 19 years of experience as a Waldorf teacher and over 21 years of teaching.

Grist by Heather Waldorf