The Dandelion Garden

<p>The year 1965 in Wakely a small county seat in southeastern Kansas is one filled with mystery secrets and discoveries. Eleven-year-old Becky Raines and her family have lived in this commuinty for three and a half years. A pastor's family she and her three siblings are expected to be good examples for other people.</p><p>As Becky experiences everyday life in a small town other issues make their appearance from the Shadow Woman who scurries the alleys at night to Mrs. McAdoo who continues to take advice from her long-deceased husband to the racial tension the Vietnam War and the space race of that year.</p><p>In The Dandelion Garden a historical fiction novel colorless grainy television news reports transfer into the school yard the sanctuary and even into a little girl's vision of a dandelion garden until shadows disappear and nothing seems black and white anymore.</p>