Poplar Bluff Public Schools
Achieving
excellence through learning: Every child,
every hour, every day.
The Poplar Bluff Public Library
hosted its first Local Author Fair—featuring two recently published authors
from the R-I school district—on Saturday, Oct. 4, during the Iron Horse
Festival.
Communication arts teacher Rachel
Stiber of Poplar Bluff Junior High School released “Elise’s Choice” via
Creative Prose Publishing based in Utah on Aug. 25. “Elise’s Choice” is a
fantasy novel about a young lady who must make a choice that ends up affecting
her life as well as the lives of everyone in her village, according to Stiber,
who writes as a hobby.
Art teacher Charles Gearhart of
O’Neal Elementary School released “Never Nurse a Grudge” via Rocking Horse
Publishing in St. Louis on Sept. 23. “Never Nurse a Grudge” is about how
fragile friendship really is, and how a purely innocent action or a thoughtless
act can tear a rift in that tenuous bond, according to Gearhart, who has from
an early age wanted to publish a book.
(Charles also did the map illustrations in Rachel’s book.)
Both books are available at Barnes
& Noble as well as Amazon.com, among other places.