Jacqueline Leigh
Jacqueline Leigh
@jacquelineleigh - Author
Jacqueline Leigh
@jacquelineleigh - Author
Jacqueline's books
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The Heritage Keeper
It is the 1830s and Fima has her eyes on the future. While she helps her mother run a wholesale rice shop in the Sherbro Island estuary of West Africa, her mind is on the shape her own business will take one day. Her boyfriend Kai, however, has different ideas for her. One evening, an urgent mess...
About me
Jackie and her family have lived both in Sierra Leone and her hometown in Michigan since 1970. She is an ESL teacher and author, and trains facilitators to run school process writing clubs. She also edits for children’s book development projects with Sierra Leonean authors and illustrators.