Patricia Gable
Author
After teaching for twenty-six years, Patricia began writing full-time. She has written over 300 educational articles, short stories for children, essays, and memoirs.
THE RIGHT ADDRESS is her first novel.
Patricia, an adopted only child, credits her father for teaching her the love of words. He was a writer and won an award for his poetry. In 2006, Patricia found her birth family and she now has four siblings. She found out that her sisters and birth mother also did some teaching and writing.
Patricia has two grown sons and two granddaughters.
Currently living in Arizona, she and her family have lived in Ohio, Michigan and Chihuahua, Mexico.
MY BOOKS
THE RIGHT ADDRESS
By: Patricia Gable
Annie hears that her foster parents are going to send her little brother, Willie, to another foster home. She can’t let that happen! She devises a plan for the two of them to run away in the middle of a wintry night. That’s when the adventure begins!
Annie is the protective sister and Willie is bold and comical. They meet new friends and find places to sleep and eat. But how long can they last in the winter weather? And who is the strange man watching them?
When they are given a card with only an address written on it, will this be the break they need or will it spell disaster?
THE RIGHT CHOICE
By: Patricia Gable
Christopher is the youngest and best basketball player on the Northland High team. Basketball is his life! When his world turns upside down, will he ever play again? Meanwhile, Annie and her little brother, Willie, are happy and secure, until a long-lost relative threatens to take them away from their adoptive mother. Will friends and family help to make the right choices?
THE RIGHT DISCOVERY
By: Patricia Gable
A dangerous blizzard stops everything in the small town. Five friends are trapped in a large house without parents. They watch a movie and play games. Then they play hide and seek. That’s when the danger begins! Where is Willie? Suddenly a large tree hits the house and knocks out the electricity. Will they be able to find him? A voice can be heard behind the wall in the basement. “Help me!”
The adventure begins. History comes back to life. The friends work together and in the end the town benefits.
And could there be a Guardian Angel involved?
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Selection of Short Stories
Angel Mouse
SOME FOLKS ARE DOG LOVERS. Others are cat people. I have a soft spot for mice-all because of an unforget- table experience my grandfather had in his twenties. He worked the night shift in a Michigan Ford factory signing out heavy tools, stored on huge shelves, from the tool room. Each night, when things were quiet, Grandfather would sit in his chair and eat the supper Grandma had packed for him.
One night he saw a mouse peeking out of a hole in the wall across the room, about 10 feet away. He must be hungry, Grandfather thought, tossing over a small piece of bread.
Believe
Jimmy Gadomski was his name. His big brown eyes seemed more prominent because of his thin face and cropped haircut. But he was just one of them. There was Willard, Mitch, Jeff and Tina. All of them were students in my first class, my first year of teaching.
The school was an old country building in northern Ohio. It only housed kindergarten, first and second
grade. The huge oak tree in the front of the building added to its charm. In those days we had time to sit under
the tree and read a story each afternoon. Other schools were scattered in the area and we all shared one
principal. He came to our school every Tuesday.
Lost in a Storm
Grace Olson tilted back on her heels to give her knees a rest. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked around at the barren land. “Mama, why do we have to work so hard?” she whined.
“You will appreciate it soon enough. When the plants start to grow, we will have good food to eat, just the way God intended. instead of spending money at the grocery store.”
Now that her dad was gone, Grace and her mother, Mary, had to be careful with their money. When they sold their house, they moved far away to the land that Mary had inherited.