Margaret O'Hair is an award-winning author, kindergarten teacher, mother of Sam and Stephanie, and dog-mom to Sailor and Surfer.   If you want to find her, look on the beach where she is walking with her husband, Mark, and her Portuguese Water Dogs.   Be on the lookout for her debut novel, MALIBU WISH. Please visit www.margaretohair.com for links to her other books and her blog.Sofia Sanchez is a delightful and charismatic student at her local public school Sunset Ranch Elementary. She is fully included in the classroom and loves to read and write in her journal. She uses an iPad to type so she can keep up with my classmates. She loves all sports including dance and cheer, Spanish class and anything music or theater related! Her story is one made for the movies. She was abandoned at birth and spent the first 14 months of her life in an orphanage in a very small town in Ukraine. Her forever family found her on an adoption ministry website Reese's Rainbow and brought her home in June 2011. She wasn't able to do much before she met her family, but as soon as she got home to the United States, she began to thrive with the love of her 3 older brothers and loving parents and grandparents.Her mom and dad LOVE taking pictures of her and suddenly her "modeling" career began to take off! Sofia loves taking pictures and she's a really good listener, follows directions and has incredible patience and poise. She LOVES people and making friends and has a full and happy life!