UNA, Queen of Trouble - Campagna, Mary Ellen
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Who is Una, Queen of Trouble? Una Zipley, the protagonist of this effervescent young adult novel, is an outspoken girl who attempts to hone some witchy talents. She's the Caucasian child of an affluent family that relocates from Northern Virginia to a small city in Southwestern Virginia. There, as she matures, Una discovers the evils borne of discrimination and institutional racism aimed primarily at African Americans. Soon, she realizes that her best talent lies in activism; not occultism. She forms a group of concerned citizens who call themselves the (CHAG) the Creative Healing Activists…mehr

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Who is Una, Queen of Trouble? Una Zipley, the protagonist of this effervescent young adult novel, is an outspoken girl who attempts to hone some witchy talents. She's the Caucasian child of an affluent family that relocates from Northern Virginia to a small city in Southwestern Virginia. There, as she matures, Una discovers the evils borne of discrimination and institutional racism aimed primarily at African Americans. Soon, she realizes that her best talent lies in activism; not occultism. She forms a group of concerned citizens who call themselves the (CHAG) the Creative Healing Activists Group. When two Gullah nurses come to work with the protagonist's mother, who is a pediatrician, they both become close friends with Una and it is through one of them, Polithia Davis, that she unravels a long kept secret about herself. Consistent throughout the book is Una's eager inquisitiveness and her willingness to uncover the truth. A heroine for our times, she always acts upon it, regardless of the cost. Vividly drawn characters and lifelike scenes create a historically correct and enticing roam through the chaos and the courageous actions of a few in the midst of the wasteland that was the ' 80s and '90s.
Autorenporträt
Mary Ellen Campagna was born and reared in Northern Virginia. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Liberal Art Studies at Hollins University in 2000/'02, and did graduate work in education at the University of Virginia. For several decades she was a school teacher and a freelance journalist. Campagna taught in three states and served as lead foreign teacher at a private school in South Korea. During that time, she traveled to China and Japan, as well. Aft er returning from Asia, she became a QMHP; she counseledboth adults and teens with mental health problems and won the Media Award from the Montgomery County Mental Health Association for a fictional short story she wrote for the Roanoker Magazine about her own depression under the pen name, Anne Pryce.In 2005, Campagna wrote and published, Unalet P. Zipley, a Y/A novel that is still for sale on Amazon. That book became a collector's item and was translated into French and Chinese. In 2019, she wrote and published a memoir titled The Blue Velvet Glove, no longer for sale on Amazon. She also produced Sammy Gales, an unlikely witch, a book that is no longer for sale.The author's history of covering city council and community meetings for newspapers in the Roanoke and New River Valleys of Virginia led to her research on racism in the area. She had marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a child and was there in 1963 to witness his "I have aDream Speech." She also researched environmental racism while teaching in South Carolina.