The Shortest Path Home Is Through the Heart
by Lynda Schultz
$13.95 paperback, 210 pages
Published: October 2007
ISBN 978-1-59715-046-0

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At the tender age of six months, Mattie Rose and Annie Lizbeth Radley are left behind by their mother who prefers to seek greener, unencumbered pastures. Nine years later, these bright and high-spirited twins are ready to enter fifth grade, and conquer new challenges.
Supported by the love of their wise and practical grandmother, and their hard-working, loyal father, the twins' tenth year proves to be a time of fun, typical childhood foolishness, and also, a time of awakening to the emotional complexities and realities of a more complicated world.
This is the poignant story of childhood innocence, resilience, the drive to overcome hardship, and the acceptance of bitter truth. It is the story of family, and the unbreakable bonds of sisterly love.