Angela Hatch

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When the Earth Trembled

A survival adventure with hope at the core.
Thirteen-year-old Domiku watched his world crumble when a massive earthquake tore through his home in Port au Prince, Haiti, with his family trapped inside. Minutes later, a towering tsunami swept away everything he knew, including his six-year-old sister.

Wading through the wreckage, Domiku must begin a...

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When the River Cried Out

Just nine months after the devastating 7.0 earthquake, Candice is drawn back to Haiti to help restore clean water. This time she brings her twelve-year-old son, Jonah, and best friends, Will and Bree. As they work with a team to drill a well, villagers are mysteriously becoming deathly sick. Can they find the source before it devastates the...

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Hope Lives Here

In the remote hills of Guatemala, hope is not a familiar word. Rodrigo, Kristal, and Javier live in a one-room shanty with dirt floors, bamboo walls, and a rusty tin roof that leaks. At twelve, Rodrigo dreams of going to school but must work in the fields every day to help his family make a meager living. By striking a deal with his sick Mama,...

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News from the Makerspace Desk of Angela Hatch
It's July and in a few days our country will celebrate 250 years! That’s quite a feat...250 years. That's pretty old, but then I wondered what's the oldest country? So, I asked Chat. And like a politician, it gave me a couple answers (depends on how you define it). Chat's response surprised me because it was a country I hadn’t really heard of. The "oldest continuously independent sovereign country is San Marino, founded AD 301. It’s a tiny country...

News from the Makerspace Desk of Angela Hatch
March is in the books and April is in the air! Here's my little Spring poem:Bring on the sniffles and big snotty sneezes That make room for flowers and pretty Spring breezes.As if it's not enough to have runny noses and wheezes,She pranks us with pollen...but then SHE sneezes."About all that pollen," she laughs, "I'm just teasin.'""April Fool's Day!" she says, "Enjoy the Spring season!"Happy Spring! As Spring arrives, I find my creativity has been...
News from the Makerspace Mind of Angela Hatch
Hi!It's been a creative month as I return from a very productive writing retreat by the beach (visited daughter and got to stay in a hotel almost a whole week to write all day uninterrupted - how great is that!).I was at my laptop in the hotel breakfast area when a lady leaned over and said, "my friend and I were wondering....are you a writer?""Well, yes I am!" They got excited when I told them I wrote middle grade. (Her friend was a retired...
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