title: The Child Once Lost: A Journey to Re-Discovery
author: Takia E Lamb MSW
description: Takia Ebonee Lamb, MSW was born in Boston, MA and later relocated to Atlanta, GA to complete her BA in Psychology at Spelman College and MSW at GA State University. Although, she has always used writing as a tool to work through her thoughts, she didn't begin to consider herself as a writer until completing the process of her first book. Takia is a wife and mother of three.
zlib_text: Written by Marti Dumas
  Illustrated by Garyl Araneta
  
  Cover Art by Marie Muravski
  Copyright © 2010 by Marti Dumas
  All rights reserved.
  ISBN-10: 150780542X
  ISBN-13: 978-1507805428
  
  For Jala, who inspires me.
  
  Contents
  1. A Not So Ordinary Girl  
  2. Breakfast      
  3. The Looking Glass   
  4. Jala and the Wolf   
  5. The Hunt     
  6. Dace     
  7. Jala’s Wolf Pack   
  8. The Feast     
  9. Home     
  About the Author    
  
  Chapter 1
  A Not So Ordinary Girl
  O
  nce there was a little girl.  Jala was her name.  By all accounts she lived
  an ordinary life.  She had a mother and a father, a sister and a brother, a
  bunk bed, a fish named Oscar, and seemingly thousands of tiny toys that
  liked to lurk about and lodge themselves in her mother’s feet.  Her life was
  wrapped in a cloak of love so warm and snug that Jala often had difficulty
  seeing past the end of her nose. 
  That’s not to say that Jala was blind.  She could see perfectly well.  But
  as is often the case for 6 year-olds who are well-loved and wel