Beals Stories

Twelve-Year-Old Lily Chance is completely overwhelmed after being accepted into a boarding school in New York. Despite only being a first year, Lily is already finding something fishy going on after meeting her new roommate. She noticed he dropped a funny looking piece of paper with strange lettering printed on it. And that's not all, Lily and her best friend Maggie start to unravel the mystery of the foreign paper and start to find some clues. After months of finding these peculiar messages, the person writing these notes takes the game to a whole new level..

It wasn't the plush-green mountains or a river that I was dragging my feet through to reach land for, so I could marvel at it's beauty. In fact, the most beautiful thing in this place was my son, who just happened to be standing on the other side of the bank.