Honored with the 2011 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, this book won the Silver Medal in young adult fiction, historical/cultural. Seventeen-year old Sarah James receives a secret key at her Great Grandmother Rose Chandler's deathbed where she is told to unlock a hidden room. In the mysterious room, she finds an antique mirror with a spell. The mirror pulls her into the past where she relives her grandmother's life as a young pre-Civil War woman, who built a cotton plantation and raised a family with Hugh Chandler. The Chandler family history continues to unfold decades later when Sarah's twin grandchildren, Drew and Sarah, discover the magical mirror which also transports them back in time. They relive the Civil War (or as they call it, the War of Northern Aggression) through the eyes of Paul and Sarah, also twins, learning the secrets of the Chandler Plantation and what life was like when the Yankees invaded their ancestral home. A love story unfolds in the third chapter of this novella, when Dr. Karen Marshall is summoned south by lawyer Stephen McGuire to arrange a funeral in the Chandler family. Karen finds herself under a spell, she's no longer herself, can't understand why she keeps remembering things she couldn't possibly know, with feelings she shouldn't have. Her mysterious connection to the Chandler Plantation and her ownership of a unique topaz ring bring her life into focus.

Song of I Am is a poetic and artistic journey through the chasm of the universe and the beauty of our natural world, the spirit of humankind and our soul. Both poet and artist ask the heart's most deeply moving questions and outline the soul's unending search for truth and understanding. This is a book of more than one-hundred poems paired with art that reaches into the mind and heart, stirring memories and calling up images out of the past, inspiring new feelings and images. Song of I Am is a lifetime of award-winning poetry by author Jeanette M. Dodge paired with art by her daughter Mary P. D. Heintzman that come together for an in-depth probing of mind, vision, and feeling thus giving the reader a renewed appreciation and enjoyment of color, shapes, flow, shadow, and feeling. Some will touch a place inside you that you never felt anyone else could understand. Others paint a snapshot of life so real that you feel the sun, hear the sound of autumn leaves, and know the winter's chill.