Central Florida Teacher and Students Send Message of Tolerance, Diversity, and Racial Harmony in 911 Memorial Tribute

Teacher Barbara J. Robinsons story "911: A Cry for Tolerance" and student stories will be released September 6 by Obadiah Press in a collection of heartfelt poems, letters, and stories on an American tragedy, ISBN # 0-9713266-5-7, 288 pages, $15.95 and will be available at www.amazon.com and area bookstores soon. Proceeds will benefit the Todd Beamer Foundation his wife and family began, and he will be long remembered for his last words, "Are you ready? Lets roll!" Robinson says, "My students and I are proud to be a part of this worthwhile cause, and while we felt powerless to make a difference, writers write, and we used the power of the pen and the written word to fight terrorism and benefit the Todd Beamer Foundation, hoping that through our small part in writing and sharing our hearts, we will be able to reach many and make a vast difference with our message of tolerance, diversity, and racial harmony. More information will be available at http://pages.prodigy.net.

Central Florida Teacher and Students Send Message of

Tolerance, Diversity, and Racial Harmony in 911 Memorial Tribute

911: THE DAY AMERICA CRIED

Teacher Barbara J. Robinsons story "911: A Cry for Tolerance" and student Stephanie Ortizs story as well as other student stories will be released September 6 by Obadiah Press in a collection of heartfelt poems, letters, and stories on an American tragedy, ISBN # 0-9713266-5-7, 288 pages, $15.95 and will be available at www.amazon.com and area bookstores soon. Proceeds will benefit the Todd Beamer Foundation his wife and family began, and he will be long remembered for his last words, "Are you ready? Lets roll!" Robinson says, "My students and I are proud to be a part of this worthwhile cause, and while we felt powerless to make a difference, writers write, and we used the power of the pen and the written word to fight terrorism and benefit the Todd Beamer Foundation, hoping that through our small part in writing and sharing our hearts, we will be able to reach many and make a vast difference with our message of tolerance, diversity, and racial harmony. More information will be available at http://pages.prodigy.net.

Author/Educator Barbara J. Robinson will personally autograph copies of 911 THE DAY AMERICA CRIED and her Southern memoir MAGNOLIA: A WILITING FLOWER on October 12 at the Osceola County Library System Book Fair and on October 27 from 1:30-5:00 at the Florida Writers Association Convention in Orlando, Florida. (www.floridawriters.net for more info and see Member Spotlight). Robinson teaches sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in Osceola County at Denn John Middle School and has her poem titled Voices of the Children that September Day published in CELEBRATIONS: POETS SPEAK OUT EDUCATORS 2002, her story "My Special Mother" published in MOTHERS OF WRITERS, VOL. II released in May by Publish America, her Southern memoir MAGNOLIA: A WILTING FLOWER was released in June 2002 by Publish America, her story "Mother's Glimpse of Heaven" appeared in the July 2002 edition of FATE MAGAZINE, and her story "Small-Town Louisiana Girl" appeared in the July 2002 edition of The Osceola Magnifier. An excerpt from Magnolia appears in the September 2002 Magnifier. Her site is http://pages.prodigy.net/bud25 for more information. She is a Florida Writers Association member, (FWA), a Jr. Palm Leader for the Osceola County Youth Group, a 1994 graduate of the Summer Institute for Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project (SLWP), an SLWP teaching consultant, and has her testimonial advocating the use of Chicken Soup books as classroom learning tools in Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul. This will be her fourteenth year as an educator, and she has taught in exceptional education for each year other than her first year. She enjoys teaching, reading, writing, swimming, bowling on a league, traveling, children, and animals and is hard at work on a sequel to Magnolia as well as a book on teaching writing to exceptional education students. She teaches at Denn John Middle School in Kissimmee and makes her home in St. Cloud.