Author visits Elementary Students in OC

Oconee County students in grades 3, 4, and 5 at Ravenel Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementary, Walhalla Elementary, and James M. Brown Elementary were treated to a visit by author, M.H. Herlong. Her book “Buddy” is on the South Carolina Children’s Book Award list this year. It is also one of the titles to be used in this year’s Oconee County Elementary Schools’ Battle of the Books. Another book she has written, “The Great Wide Sea”, was named one of the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults and included on numerous state reading lists. Herlong lives in New Orleans, and like the characters in “Buddy”, had to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina. She will return to Oconee County in January to visit Northside, Orchard Park, Tamassee-Salem, and Westminster Elementary Schools.