Now, this is unusual ... and sounds like family fun. A book launch. In the great outdoors. In Market Square. At a tiki hut cafe. Where they'll be serving free mango smoothies all afternoon. The tiki hut is a re-creation of the Green Flash Café, featured in "Hurricane Mia: A Caribbean Adventure," the new book by award-winning author Donna Marie Seim. In the book, which is recommended for kids age 8 to 12, Mia learns that her mom is sick. Then she and her younger brother are whisked away to their grandparents’ home in the Caribbean for the summer. She's furious ... until she meets Neisha, an island girl, who tells her about “the tea that cures everything.” An incredible adventure follows, taking Mia and friends on the high seas, where they meet barracudas, explore uninhabited islands and search for the magic tea. Seim is a graduate of Ohio State University and holds a master's degree in special education from Lesley University. Her first book, "Where is Simon, Sandy?," about a little donkey that wouldn’t quit, also takes place in the Caribbean It won the Mom’s Choice Award for 2009 for best children’s picture book, and was a finalist in the picture book category for the National Indie Excellence Awards for 2010. The blender will be whirring from noon to 4 p.m. June 26 outside of the Dragon's Nest. Seim will read a selection from the book. She and illustrator Susan Spellman will be on hand to sign the book.
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