Alana White

Sacagawea: Westward With Lewis and Clark
Sacagawea: Westward with Lewis and Clark
In 1805-1806, a young Shoshone girl named Sacagawea accompanied Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to the Pacific Coast. Sacagawea made many contributions to the expedition—important contributions that helped ensure its success. Imagine a sixteen-year-old with a baby in a cradleboard on her back, beginning a journey that would take her some six thousand miles by foot, horseback, and canoe on the first organized exploration of the American West. This is Sacagawea’s true story.

Sacagawea: Westward with Lewis and Clark is on the Cumberland Center for Justice & Peace List of Recommended Books for Children.

Come Next Spring
Come Next Spring
It’s 1949 in Tennessee Smoky Mountain country, and twelve-year-old Salina takes an instant dislike to Scooter, the new girl in school. Why can’t Scooter see that Rhett butler returns to Scarlett after the novel, Gone With the Wind, ends? Otherwise, it’s too unfair and sad. And Scooter’s open-minded attitude toward building a highway through farmland makes Salina angry. Salina doesn’t like change—and so many things in her life seem to be changing. Her sister is engaged, her brother Paul is absorbed in caring for his foal, Sugar-Boy, and Salina feels she has nothing in common anymore with her best friend, Mayella. This novel for young people captures the insular spirit of the mountain people, the breathtaking country itself, and a girl’s struggle to accept the inevitability of change.

--Horn Book: "A finely crafted first novel...includes a likable cast of characters and even a romance."

The Missouri Association of School Librarians placed Come Next Spring on its Mark Twain Award Master List. Tennessee Librarians nominated it for the Volunteer State Children’s Book Award.

Gathering: Writers Of Williamson County
Gathering: Writers of Williamson County
Gathering: Writers of Williamson County, Edited by Currie Alexander Powers and Kathy Hardy Rhodes

Gathering features adult fiction and nonfiction by a collection of authors, all Council for the Written Word members and/or Hall of Fame members, including Madison Smartt Bell, Robert Hicks, Tom T. Hall, and Alana White. Alana’s contributions are a contemporary short story titled “The Cloths of Heaven,” and a nonfiction article, “Find the Good.”

“The Cloths of Heaven”

Can love-shy Rosalee find romance at a priest’s ordination in Nashville? Or will her heart be broken again?

“Find the Good”

Who better to offer words of encouragement to an aspiring writer than Roots author, Alex Haley? In “Find the Good,” Alana White shares the advice the Pulitzer Prize winner gave her one afternoon on the way to the Nashville airport.