title: Believe In A Dream: Overcoming Adversity To Make Childhood Dreams Come True
author: Autumn Brooke Hartt
description: Autumn Brooke Hartt is a 16-year-old author. She owns her own horse and writes about over-coming family tragedies from her own personal experiences in life. This is the first in a planned series of children's books dealing with self-esteem and the magnificent power of believing that God has created everyone to have a unique and special gift in life. Born with dyslexia, Autumn struggled with reading and writing until it was diagnosed and treated during her early school years. By the time she was a sophomore in high school she was already reading at a collegian level. Autumn asserts "writing this book challenged me to take my love for creative writing to the next level. I wanted a way to encourage everyone to find their unique passion in life and push it to the max!" Autumn is also a talented singer. One of her biggest surprises came when she was cast as one of the orphans in the Broadway Musical "Annie". This was all the more astounding because she had no previous acting experience; much less, even tried out for a part before. Autumn is community minded and has already made numerous speaking engagements through her involvement in the Miss Teen Texas Pageant system. This not only affords her the opportunity to routinely speak at schools, churches, and civic events; but, it also provides her with one of the few venues left in our modern day world to become a princess and still legitimately wear a crown. Autumn's goals in life are to become a professional entertainer and public speaker. She would eventually like to play a part in a television series and be a recording artist. She also hopes to continue to write books, especially ones that reinforce her own motto: believe in yourself, overcome obstacles, and just do it! For more Information about Autumn - go to book website: BelieveInaDream.squarespace.com
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  # Impossible Things
  
  
  Alexandra McBrayer
  
  
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  Chapter One
  
  
  Her earliest dreams were of faraway places, grand adventures, and finding
  someone that she could be herself with, someone like her. As she grew up she
  tried to hold onto those dreams, tried to fight against the tide of pessimism
  that was the way of the world in which she lived, but she wasn’t able to, and
  as each year passed her dreams became more and more faded until they were only
  faint whispers in her heart. By the time she was a teenager, the little girl
  that she had once been was a stranger, even to herself.
  
  
  The young woman that she had become over the years was one that had learned to
  fit in, to become someone that others found acceptable, and someone who
  dreamed conventional dreams.
  
  
  But to those that had known her before, and accepted her for who she was, it
  seemed as if the butterfly had gone back into her cocoon. Her beauty,
  remarkable as a child, seem