1st Place Winner
2015 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest
Middle Grade Fiction
BREATHE TO BOTH SIDES tells the story of two young girls—one black, the other white—whose fates and paths intersect across the space of thirty-five years, when the discovery of a decades-old secret forces residents of a small Mississippi town to confront family secrets, myths, and their own shameful past.
Sharon Mentyka, Children's Writer 