About This Book
It has been two years since Ella Rose was the newcomer attending Manchester High School in Upper Washington DC, and even though she adjusted well to her new beginnings and overcame a few bumps in the road as a Freshman, her Sophomore year improved much, making way for a promising year as a Junior. However, after becoming a little wiser and two years older, Ella Rose Abbot still finds herself facing unusual challenges in the categories of peer pressure, faulty friendships, being different, coping with teenage social trends and following her hearts desires as she plans for a special event. In Bittersweet Dayz, author Winona Rasheed takes us into the high school world as Ella Rose keeps us up to date on living with being hearing impaired and the challenges she faces every day. Bittersweet Dayz, book 2 in the Broken Voices series by Winona Rasheed, is a heartwarming journey of adolescence. Excerpt: Ella sitting at her desk, looked at the handwritten content she scribbled in her journal. Every day after coming home from school, she made it a habit to write down what her day's experiences were like at Manchester High School in North West, Washington DC. This was the third color composition book she worked on, keeping track of her thoughts and feelings rather good or bad. She had pink journals as a freshman and blue ones for when she was a sophomore and in each composition tablet, the sheets of paper were filled on both the front and the back pages. Sometimes the writing resembled that of chicken scratch when she wrote in a hurry. And there were those times when her penmanship looked beautiful, taking her time and making what she said look well written as if turning it in for an assignment. The purple composition book that she worked in at the moment, reflect the days of her junior year and since she was the only one reading her personal views and tidbits; it didn't matter if any of her pages looked like chicken scratch, a coded message or if it looked like a painstaking essay, showing just how persnickety she could be if she so desired. As she picked up her pen and opened the notebook, her thoughts ran away causing her to remember the fact that Cora Belcher was not at school. Her long time rival was absent, which made Ella's day a peaceful one. It was always a good day with Cora being tagged as absent. Her skip-out day put the southern girl at ease for a full 9 hours. She didn't have to watch her back or defend herself in childish situations caused by someone else's insecurities and mischievousness. At the top of the page, for the heading of her journal she scribbled: Cora Went AWOL Again, and then she began the heart of her thoughts…
