Eric Weiman is on his way to a famous music camp in San Francisco, a prize he won in a New Orleans guitar contest. He hopes he'll find a teacher and mentor there. He expects the best summer of his life. But there will be complications whom he met when they both won the Quickfinger Guitar contest in New Orleans, he's never been so far from home. He hopes he'll make friends and learn a lot about music. That will happen but not before a strange twist of fate causes Eric to call on reserves of courage he never knew he had as he visits the most fascinating places in this complex and beautiful city.
Whitney Stewart is an award-winning author of young adult biographies, middle grade novels, and picture books. She has traveled widely in Asia and interviewed such figures as the 14th Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Whitney experienced Hurricane Katrina while trapped in a building in downtown New Orleans. She was helicoptered out of the city with her son and elderly mother-in-law. During her semester away from home, Whitney lived on Nantucket, researched the island's history and ghost lore, and wrote three children's books.
Whitney loves to travel, read, meditate, hike, bike, kayak, and do yoga. She is also a Level III Reiki practitioner and is studying Classical Tibetan.
