Local Teacher Launches Young Adult Novel

April 19, 2016 – – Gainesville, Virginia – Set locally, novel addresses pressure in Northern Virginia high schools through a fast moving plot involving love, mystery and deceit.

Along the Garden Path is a Young Adult Fiction novel which takes place in outside of Washington, D.C., in McLean Virginia. Seventeen-year-old Addison Erhard dreams of attending Columbia University and becoming a world-traveling journalist. She meets Mason Gentry, who wants nothing more than to manage his family’s large farm in Marshall, Virginia. These two develop an unlikely relationship as they explore who they want to become. Everything is going well, until a friend of theirs is a victim of a hit-and-run accident. Addison uses her journalistic know-how to uncover the truth. What she discovers is more than she bargained for.

“I’m so proud of my good friend, Charlotte Peyton. I just finished reading her first book, Along the Garden Path, and it’s awesome. I couldn’t put it down until I got to the end. Great job, Charlotte Strack Peyton – Can’t wait for the sequel!!” – Julie Graves, Department Chair at Battlefield High School, Haymarket, Virginia.

Charlotte Peyton teaches English, journalism and photojournalism at Battlefield High School. In addition to helping her students publish a 24-page monthly magazine, she also advises the publication of a 320-page yearbook. Both the news magazine and yearbook have earned multiple awards in the publications arena over the last five years.

Mrs. Peyton was inspired by her students to demonstrate the kinds of pressures kids are under today, but also to show that there are kids who have innate drive, who build caring relationships, support each other, and who will choose to do the right thing when given the chance.

Visit http://www.authorcharlottepeyton.com/press-kit.html for contact details, review copies, photos, and an author bio.

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Contact Author Charlotte Payton:

Charlotte Payton
6805 Mandalay Court, Gainesville Virginia 20155

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