Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie West and Tillie Taylor, want to be sisters. Ginnie's widowed dad plus Tillie's divorced mom could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again.
Ginnie and Tillie come up with the perfect scheme to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ (aka OSS). After all, if they can’t get Dad to move on, Tillie can’t move in.
Top Ten
List
Ten fun
facts about the book
1) Secret Sisters Club was written AFTER Trouble Blows West
2) Heart of the Wests (Ginnie's home) is a real place in Ohio.
3) The blonde girl on the cover (Gracie--who is modeling for Ginnie) lives
in the real West Farmhouse.
4) The brunette girl on the cover (Jessie--who is modeling for Tillie)--is
Gracie's cousin in real life.
5) There are real goats, chickens, cattle, dogs, cats, turkeys, ducks on
the real West farm--but NO horses.
6) Queenie West's (Ginnie's mom) personality is based on Gracie and
Jessie's grandmother. Gracie looks very much like her--just as Ginnie looks
like her mom.
7) I spent a lot of time at the "real Wests" farm--as a
teenager--babysitting the kids that lived there--especially Gracie and Jessie's
dads--and their aunt.
8) Gracie and Jessie's cousins grew up on a different farm I mention in the
books: Chandler's Crossing--Toran and Ginnie's friend, Austin's home. :)
9) Gracie and Jessie's grandpa and grandma were my 4H leaders as well as my
friends.
10) I raised a lamb named Appomattox (because I was fascinated with the
Civil War) on the real West farm and showed it at fair as a teen.
Character
Casting
1) Ginnie--if I could cast a girl as Ginnie in a movie today--it would be
Gracie on the cover. Gracie has a fun personality and an impish grin.
2) Tillie--if I could cast a girl as Tillie--it would be Jessie on the
cover. The 2 of them just did a beautiful picture shoot that embraced the essence
of Ginnie and Tillie.
3) Uncle Ben--i always picture Bruce Boxleitner I enjoyed him a s a kid on
a show called "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and "Babylon
5"--recenty he has been featured on Supergirl and he was the actor
who played the main character on the original movie, Tron.
4) I would love to see Bruce's ex-wife, Melissa Gilbert as Aunt Sadie --I
loved her as a kid as Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie
5) Ginnie's dad Todd--my first inspiration for Todd was John Schneider--Bo
Duke from Dukes of Hazzard. John would be too old to play Ginnie's dad if it
was filmed today--but he was the original dad image, when I dreamed Ginnie up
years ago.
6) Uncle Jake--I could see Michael Weatherly (Tony DiNozzo) from NCIS
playing a contemporary Uncle Jake--minus the 3 piece suits.
7) Miss Amanda-- I could see her portrayed by Emma Watson (real life Belle
and Little Women)
When Monique isn’t writing, you can find her playing taxi driver to one or more of her 12 children, plotting her next novel, scrapbooking, or being the “Mamarazzi” at any number of child-oriented events.
Even though she realizes there will never be enough hours in any given day, Monique tries very hard to enjoy the journey that is her life. She shares it with a terrific husband, her dozen children and 3 in-law kids, eleven granddarlings, 5 cats, and many real and imaginary friends.
She is the author of five published books (and several unpublished ones) and is in two anthologies. You can find more about Monique and her works at: www.moniquebucheger.blogspot.
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