LeaSheryn
Signifying a new day, the glory of dawn breaks upon the horizon. Awestruck, Maura Caldwell, and Savannah Peyton witness the brilliance of the sunrise. Both girls are on the cusp of their own dawn.
The eleven-year-old companions are at a changing point in their lives. Only the summer months stand between the end of grade school and the beginning of middle school. They have grown up as year-round residents of Long Beach Island in New Jersey. The prospect of continuing their education on the mainland daunts them.
Sun-filled beach days linger as Savannah and Maura play with long-time island companions and seasonal Philadelphia friends. It is a carefree existence spread down at the shore. The girls make the most of the last summer of their childhood.
Semi-autobiographical, "Dawn" memorializes the author's childhood on Long Beach Island. It draws upon memories of long-ago friendship and carefree summer months spent along the New Jersey coast.