Everything was blinding white. Sarah peered into the blowing snow, trying to see where she was going.   An eagle flew in slow circles above her, keeping pace, but she couldn’t see it.

“I don’t know where I am!” Sarah shouted.   Only the eagle heard her cries.

Eleven-year-old Sarah Levy was a city girl, a Brooklyn girl.  The modern wonders of the 1920's were all around her there, and she could not imagine a better place to live.  But her life was changed by a telegram that took her family across the country to a starkly different land and lifestyle in South Dakota.

Suddenly Sarah finds herself coming of age in a landscape that could not be more foreign to her.  On her grandparents' farm, the land they loved, Sarah finds a friend, a Sioux Indian girl named Wicincala.  Through the mystical adventures they share, Sarah learns lessons in life, love, loyalty, and foregiveness, that are larger than time itself.
 Paha Sapa [Black Hills]

What Readers are Saying about Paha Sapa

"Magical, unexpected and touching...  a wonderful gift to young audiences"
Jefferson Arca, Writer/ Filmmaker

"This blend of history and fantasy is wonderfully effective, gripping the reader from the start"
Ken Green, Musician/Filmmaker

"It is a rare book indeed that can both educate the reader as well as engross; this story has it all."
Estela Abecasis, Artist/Designer

The Authors
Gladys Bensimon

Gladys Bensimon is a filmmaker, writer, and current president of the multimedia production house HBR Productions.  Working across a wide range of genres, from educational to animation, she wrote and directed the irreverent feature filme Man in Red and won several awards for the gritty documentaries Domestic Violence: The Legal Process, Roll Call, and The Silent Victims Speak.



Sheila Martin Berry has written both fiction and non-fiction books.  These include The Spy Who Never Was, My Name is Legion, the Getting Ready for Court series for children (with Lynn Copen and Linda Pucci, Ph.D.), and Who Killed Sarah? (with Doug Berry).
 Sheila Martin Berry

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