Friends, Flowers & Fences

Five-year-old Jack is very busy exploring his new neighborhood which includes a truck farm. He wonders if a truck farm actually grows trucks? Surely that would be odd! One day, Silas moves into the neighborhood. Jack is anxious to see what his new neighbor is like. It turns out that they have much in common, especially their curious natures, and the two soon become great friends. Every day is an adventure as they create a witches' den in Silas' cellar; have a sleepover on Halloween night and visit a haunted house; discover Johnny Fitzgerald digging up worms to put in his PB&J sandwich; watch the first TV in the neighborhood; and encounter Georgie Littlefield, the mean bully next door, who causes Jack, Silas and his sister, Ruthie, to take a trip to the hospital.

Jennefer Hirshberg (aka Nona) is a retired communications specialist with a master’s degree in literature. Her career included positions as an assistant professor of literature and composition, a freelance writer for The Washington Post and staff journalist for The Washington Star, government positions in communications and public affairs, and president of a communications and public relations company. Throughout her career, she wrote news and feature stories, proposals, speeches and op-eds. Since retiring, she has turned her writing skills to children’s stories and poetry.