The Sketchpad
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Last published Tue, May 10, 2016
Alex Warsaw is just a normal girl. She's awkward around her crush, likes to watch Netflix, loves cupcakes (chocolate only) and every day sketches her version of a journal entry in her notebook. One day her notebook disappears, and she panics. Finally, it shows up one week later, but it's clear from the beginning that it isn't her old notebook with her old drawings. The true story behind it is bigger than anyone could have imagined. Alex and everyone she loves get caught up in its power, and she needs to figure out how to escape the grasp of the dangerous object and its secrets before it disappears, and takes someone she loves with it with it.
With illustrations! Don't you think that's very fitting, given that the book is about sketches and all? (They aren't great, but they do fit with the theme!)
Special thanks to the Grace Community Church of Nashville and First Wesleyan of Battle Creek Youth Groups for inviting and accepting me!
P.S. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This does not include Good Time Pizza in Nashville, MI. That's real, and it's the best pizza place in MI!
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