Lea Braden

Lea Braden(1947 -) born in Kansas City area where she grew- up, attended school and met her husband in Kindergarten. After years of living in Texas, California and Colorado they settled in her hometown. Upon their return she continued her teaching career and became the middle school art teacher and then an English teacher in the same building where she had attended junior high. Teaching art for many years in the same classroom that she had served a detention but escaped out the window with a friend. Growing up along a river she enjoyed the history and the beauty of river. In order to help her students build a pride and understanding of the area; she had them research and write about the history. They published and sold the books and received a small scholarship upon graduation from the profits.

Lea started her creative story telling at the age of four when she would walk into Sunday school and tell her latest adventures to a waiting crowd.The ideas for the Samantha Grant series bloomed while mowing ten acres on her tractor in the hot summer sun. Inspired by the barn swallows risk-all attitude she decided to pursue a long time dream of writing a book, Up the Lazy River. She, her husband and their two dogs enjoy walks along the river.

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