PRABE Blog "Unlocked" Taylor

I finished my book today! Holden performed in Beauty and the Beast without a hitch. The whole community was effected by this young man's transformation. Ella is closer to her mother, Holden's parents are getting peices of their littleboy back and a high school has learned to accept students different from theirselves. God has allowed on boy to change hearts simply because he is autistic.

Stories like this give me hope for my son. He is very different from Holden yet I know there is more going on in his head than he can express. It is frustrating for me to not be able to understand what he wants and frustrating for him when he cannot tell me or show me. Autisim is a world we are just beginning to discover and someday I hope we can crack the code.

Savannah

PRABE blog Taylor

Shaken by the suicide of their friend Micheal, people at Fulton high are looking at life in a new light. Ella leads a memorial for Micheal where she scolds many of the student body for their treatment of Micheal and challenges them to a better treatment of others different from them. The drama teacher approaches Ella and tells her hewants Holden to sing in the school play, he also sang at the memorial for Micheal. Music is his way out and he is progressing by leaps and bounds. Ella and Holden's mother's begin to talk to eachother once again and it is clears God is performing miracles.
Savanna Taylor

"Unlocked" Karen Kingsbury Prabe Blog #4

Sunday evening I was able to get a few hours in between nursing myself through a cold and taking care of my child with a cold. Being sick is bad enough but when your baby is sick it just breaks your heart.

Ella finds herself pulling further and further away from her old friends, and spending more and more time with Holden. He is singing everyday before rehearsals still and Holden's mom has even witnessed it now. Jake (Ella's ex- boyfriend has grown jealous of her spending time with Holden and has started spreading rumors that she is "hooking up" with him. It takes all Ella has not to explode on him when she sees him after a basketball game. Then Jake begins picking on Micheal (a flute player Ella has befriended) and Ella reaches her breaking point. She shoves him and yells at him for what he has done. Ella's Best friend Le Shante tells Jake that he is basically lousy on and off the court and he is finally put it his place and shuts his insulting mouth for now....
Savannah