BOSSIER CITY, La. - Getting a child to put down a digital device and pick up a book is no easy task. But imagine a child not only reading — but also writing a book.

Harmony Lee, a ten-year-old fifth grader at W.T. Lewis Elementary School in Bossier Parish, has accomplished what many adults only dream of: She published her first book.

"Shiny hallways buzzed with chatter," Harmony reads aloud from her book, capturing the attention of a classroom filled with second graders.

An avid reader of graphic novels and short chapter books, Harmony first began writing in third grade. Although her early attempts were sometimes derailed, "because my sister would get to it and just scribble all over it," she recalls.

When she wrote this story, A Good Lie, it took just four or five days to complete.

See Full Page