About the Book

The verdant, beautiful mountains of West Virginia, completely different in terrain from the rich, fertile soil of Central Illinois, becomes the new home of the Bannister family in nineteen fifty-four.?  Sissy Bannister left Redbud Grove, Illinois, as a broken-hearted fourteen-year-old, but it doesn??™t take her long to make new friends and find her own niche.?  Along the way to adulthood, she encounters different cultures and people in Dixon, West Virginia, who change the course of her life.

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Intrigued with the southeastern mountain accent of the residents, Sissy finds that she soon sounds just like her new friends.?  Some beliefs and lifestyles are difficult for her to accept, but she maintains the same equilibrium and sense of justice that began to form when she was a child.?  Sissy??™s first year in a new high school occurs at the same time desegregation laws are passed; and she discovers that human nature is much the same, no matter the locale.

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The pages of Wish I May, Wish I Might??¦ are rich with drama, slap-your-knee humor, chilling terror, sensual sizzling romance, and three-hanky tragedy.?  This book covers the years of Sissy??™s life between the ages of fourteen to twenty-eight.?  With laughter, struggles, tears and joy, Sissy Bannister discovers that passion doesn??™t always equal love; but through it all, she becomes the woman that was visible in the child.? ?  Starlight Starbright??¦introduced her to the world; and the final book of the trilogy, The Wish I Wish Tonight, reveals what special things the stars she wished upon held for Sissy Bannister.?  All she had to do was look in the right place.

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Chuck Yeager, General USAF, (Retired) grew up in West Virginia.?  This book holds references to him and they are used with the general??™s permission. www.chuckyeager.com

About the Author

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Award winning author and poet, Barbara Elliott Carpenter, fills the pages of her stories and novels with unforgettable characters and storylines that linger in the hearts and minds of readers long after the last pages have been read.?  Her first novel, Starlight, Starbright??¦, was released in 2003.?  She continues the saga of the Bannister family with Wish I May, Wish I Might??¦; and the third in the trilogy, The Wish I Wish Tonight, will be forthcoming in 2006.

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Carpenter writes about people, their dreams, their histories, the hidden, inner workings of their psyches that make them who they are.?  With a compassionate insight, she reveals hidden hurts and secret longings that determine the paths a characters life will follow.?  ???Sometimes I??™m surprised at the turn a story takes,??? says Carpenter.?  ???It??™s as if I??™m simply the outlet, and the characters dictate to me what they want the world to know about them.?  Often I??™m amazed at the outcome of a particular plot.?  ???Sally??™s Mountain,??? a chapter in this book, is a perfect example of the characters taking over the telling.???

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A prolific writer, Barbara Carpenter contributes to many online publications, among them, the prestigious ???Insight of the Day,??? which reaches 150,000 subscribers five days a week.?  Her work has appeared in periodicals and has been used as part of the curriculum of high school English classes.

The author resides in South-central Illinois with her husband, Glenn. She? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  can be reached through her website: www.barbaraelliottcarpenter.com

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