Hillary Porter

Hillary Porter Hillary lives in Suttons Bay and grew up spending summers on the Leelanau peninsula.

She spent many years teaching everything from pre-school to swimming lessons and young author groups. She claims her favorite things are chocolate, soccer, traveling. music and books, but not necessarily in that order. However, having known Hillary for some time my guess is that's an accurate ranking.

Her first novel - The Colors of Beech Hill was #1 on the northern Michigan bestseller list this past summer and has been nominated for both the Michigan Notable Book Award and the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principal Association Award.

Hillary has a new book scheduled for release this Spring. It will be launched at Brilliant Books.

Please email us if you'd like personalized copies of Hillary's work dedicated to you or someone special to you.

 

The Colors of Beech Hill

The Colors of Beech Hill

$8.99
Model: 9780982345603

Nick is tired of playing shortstop for his sorry old ball team in Northport, Michigan. So when all the pro players go on strike, he ditches the boys and ventures into the woods at Beech Hill to find his sister's old tree fort and a new kid named Tony, who has both wild eyes and grand ideas for summertime fun.

But the summer of 1981 turns into more than Nick was counting on as he finds himself engineering a contraption to squelch an insolent bully and weathering storms that arise out of seemingly nowhere. And Nick hadn't banked on either the courage it would take to come to grips with the loss of his own dad or the amazing power that friendship can have in the midst of even the darkest storms.

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