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Jean E. Pendziwol

Biography

Jean E. Pendziwol

Jean E. Pendziwol was born in Thunder Bay on Lake Superior and spent much of her childhood aboard her family’s sailboat, exploring the islands and bays of the inland sea. After working as a freelance writer and photographer, she spent several years focusing on raising her three children before publishing her first children’s book. She lives in Ontario, in the shadow of the Nor’Wester Mountains, with her husband, two of her three grown children, a loveable mutt, and three temperamental chickens, who sometimes lay eggs.

Jean E. Pendziwol

Books by Jean E. Pendziwol

by Jean E. Pendziwol - Fiction

Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service, Elizabeth goes through her late father's journals, which have been found amid the ruins of an old shipwreck. Entry by entry, these unlikely friends are drawn deep into a world far removed from their own --- to Porphyry Island on Lake Superior, where Elizabeth’s father manned the lighthouse 70 years before. As the words on these musty pages come alive, Elizabeth and Morgan begin to realize that their fates are connected to the isolated island in ways they never dreamed.