Looking For Dragonflies

By S.L. Hollister

Hope is a nine-year-old girl who dreams of exploring the world outside on her own. Her parents feel she is too young and convince her to wait until she is just a little older. Hope, of course, feels otherwise and is unable to wait for permission. What will Hope discover on her first independent walk in the woods?

She finds more than she co

• Language: English
• Publisher: S.L.Hollister
• Release date: Oct 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781732844513

S.L. Hollister

. L. Hollister is a nature photographer who lives in CT and likes to spend time with friends on the trails in both CT and RI. She has a degree in the Environmental field and finds it not only cathartic but necessary to spend time out in the woods and on the beach. She is self-confessed nemophist and thalassophile as well as a bibliophile. Her freshman story is about a young girl with an imagination who shares the author's love of nature.

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Looking for Dragonflies

By S.L. Hollister

© 2018 S. L. Hollister

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ISBN: 978-1-7328445-1-3 (e-book)

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All photographs are by S.L.Hollister

Looking For Dragonflies

S.L. Hollister

For all my little loves in Texas and all who crave the feel of the sun on their face and the breeze through their hair –S.L.

Hope lived in an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood in an ordinary town. But Hope was far from ordinary; she just didn't know it yet.

Hope is an only child. Her father goes to work before the sun comes up and her mother works from home on her computer and usually right up until dinner time. Since they live in a rural area, there are not a lot of kids her age close enough to play together more than once or twice a week.

Hope learned to have fun by herself and she liked to fill her days by doing acrobatics in the front yard, exploring the back yard, gardens, climbing trees and reading. She loves to read. Her favorite books range from White Fang and Charlotte's Web to the Septimus Heap and Harry Potter series.

A walk in her back yard brings encounters with countless birds, bugs, dragonflies, butterflies, rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks. She likes to sit still in her back yard and let the squirrels come and take peanuts right out of her hand.

It wasn't too long before Hope realized that the animals liked her and were as curious about her as she was about them.

Hope loved her home, but her favorite thing was going on walks with her dad. Sometimes she even met him on the street that ran parallel to theirs so she had more time with him when he got out of work.

Her father had been teaching her