{"product_id":"choices-9780813109008","title":"Choices","description":"\" \"I don't agree with all the choices people make,\" says the author. \"You probably won't either. My job is to let them tell their stories.\" And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: - Like Iona, who accidentally accepts a marriage proposal - And Daryll, just about to graduate from high school, whose mother is eager for him to \"make something\" of himself. - And Lexie and Jeb, deep in debt and a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyon, George Ella:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eGeorge Ella Lyon\u003c\/b\u003e is a former Kentucky poet laureate and the award-winning author of more than forty books for children and adults, including \u003ci\u003eMany-Storied House, Which Side Are You On? \u003c\/i\u003e(Winner, Aesop Prize), \u003ci\u003eShe Let Herself Go, Back, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCatalpa\u003c\/i\u003e (Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year). Her poem \"Where I'm From\" is featured in the PBS series \u003ci\u003eThe United States of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and has become a model for teachers around the world. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503918158098,"sku":"9780813109008","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25b3b56b-28af-4abb-8599-8ba0ca62395b.jpg?v=1730804466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/choices-9780813109008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}