A Collection of Stories

Ebram's Story: The Haunting, Book 1, is more than Ebram's story.  In fact, there are several stories in the book, some short, others long.  His family's baby-sitter tells the kids a story about the family who used to live in their new house. Ebram's dad tells a story about getting lost after Ebram has trouble finding his classes at his new middle school. His neighbors, the Robleses, tell a story about their deceased brother/husband and another about the orphanage once built in their subdivision.  Finally, there are Grandfather Lito's stories.  

In my original manuscript, Lito tells eight stories.  To keep The Haunting focused on the main story line, however, five were deleted. Still in the book are the stories he tells about the Day of the Dead, the Farmer and his Burros, and Christmas around the world.  I hope to have the rest published into short picture books, with titles such as: Tik-tok-li and the Origin of Chocolate, Ria's Rocks, Flight of the Monarch Butterflies, A Mexican Pinata, and An Immigrant's Story. 

Ebram's Story: The Haunting, Book 1

       When eleven-year-old Ebram Casas-Treski learns his family is moving, leaving his friends and familiar way of life behind is only the beginning of what lies ahead. Sixth grade is part of the middle school—not the elementary school—and his new house appears to be haunted!

       But ice from the tap and in the toilet pales in comparison to the bullies and cliques of middle school. His solution? Join an “uncool” group of tweens and teens in peculiar outfits. Grounded in faith and family, Ebram sees past their appearance to the good works they do and performs his own good deed to inject some childhood fun into his school.

      Along the way he learns that things aren’t always what they seem—especially regarding the truth about his house!