Bethany Hegedus – författare

As a boy goes through his day, he encounters all sorts of people and experiences. He reacts differently depending on the situation. Whether it’s “the manager” who takes charge, organizes, and gives orders; “the exile” who makes himself small and disappears; or “the firefighter” who employs a lot of noise and distractions, each of these “parts” of the boy are useful in helping him cope.Based on the teachings of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of therapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz, this book is not only a great introduction to our feelings and behaviours, but a way for kids to talk about what they are experiencing. Children will learn to accept all parts of themselves and understand that within us there are no bad parts!

Lots of families have secrets. Little-Known Fact: My family has an antebellum house with a locked wing—and I’ve got a secret of my own. I thought getting kicked out of the Gifted & Talented program—or not being “pegged,” as Mama said—­was the worst thing that could happen to me. W-r-o-n-g, wrong.I arrived in Tweedle, Georgia, to spend the summer with Granny and Gramps, only to find no sign of them. When they finally showed up, Cousin Isaac was there too, with his trumpet in hand, and I found myself having to pretend to be thrilled about watching my musical family rehearse for the town''s Anniversary Spectacular. It was h-a-r-d, hard. Meanwhile, I, Maebelle T.-for-No-Talent Earl, set out to win a blue ribbon with an old family recipe.But what was harder and even more wrong than any of that was breaking into the locked wing of my grandparents’ house, trying to learn the Truth with a capital T about Josiah T. Eberlee, my long-gone-but-not-forgotten relation. To succeed, I couldn''t be a solo act. I’d need my new friends, a basset hound named Cotton, the strength of my entire family, and a little help from a secret code. With grace and humor and a heaping helping of little-known facts, Bethany Hegedus incorporates the passions of the North and the South and bridges the past and the present in this story about one summer in the life of a sassy Southern girl and her trumpet-playing adopted Northern cousin.From the Hardcover edition.