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TWELVE-YEAR-OLD POET’S DEATH AIDS INDONESIA’S ORPHANS IN THE WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI  

 ATLANTA, GA “Little Treasure Books is privileged to release Tomorrow: Raising an Angel ,” exclaims publisher, Bernadette Garzarelli. Tomorrow: Raising an Angel, a memoir of the life of a twelve-year-old intertwined with her poetry, offers each of us the opportunity to help alleviate the suffering of Indonesian orphans following one of the greatest natural disasters of our time, the Tsunami of December 26, 2004. 

 In memory of their daughter, Claudia and Francisco Averhoff are donating all proceeds from book sales to the “Monica Anne Averhoff Fund for the Education of Orphans and Homeless Children in Indonesia through the Friends of Jakarta International School Foundation.”  PURCHASING THIS BOOK OFFERS EVERYONE A WAY OF SUPPORTING INDONESIA’S ORPHANS IN THE WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI.

Monica Anne Averhoff was ahead of her time; some even believe she was an angel walking among us, reaching out to those less fortunate. While living the last two years of her life in Indonesia, she had a vision of peace expressed through the poetry she wrote between the ages of ten and twelve. “Monica’s book, Tomorrow: Raising an Angel eloquently tells a story of life, its peaks and valleys, love and hate, and offers us the opportunity to make our world a more loving place,”says Little Treasure’s publisher.

 Tomorrow: Raising an Angel is a collection of Monica’s poetry interwoven with a memoir of her tragically shortened life. This child’s life and insights, conveyed through her poetry, enlighten us to live life to the fullest and beckon us to take a closer look at the world around us, to see the beauty as well as the pain and to understand the conditions that less fortunate children, the world over, struggle through one day at a time.

 Unbeknownst to anyone, Monica began writing poetry when she was just ten-years-old. A tattered spiral notebook of her poems and other writings was found following her sudden death at twelve years of age. “This personal and heartfelt memoir awakens us to the darkness of hate and, more importantly, to the light of love,” says Garzarelli.

 For more information contact:

Little Treasure Books, Post Office Box 937, Ocean City, NJ  08226

Telephone: (609)398-5252