About the Author ~ Tekla White

THE WRITE LIFE
Tekla White is a member of the California Reading Association, Authors Guild, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Ms. White has written and photographed feature stories for magazines and the San Jose Mercury News. Her work covered a variety of subjects including articles on braces, fleas, migrant education, and apples.

She is the author and co-author of multi-cultural, reading, language arts, logic, and math workbooks. Her stories are in the DC Heath reading series, the Scott Foresman reading program and Celebration Press.
Her workbooks for Evan Moor include Read and Understand Nonfiction for Grades 4-6 and Read and Understand Fiction. She adapted stories for Myths and Legends in the Read and Understand series, Folktales & Fairy Tales Literature Pockets, and Literature Pockets Tall Tales.

Tekla White received the Sacramento Area Reading Association's 2002 Lighthouse for Literacy Author's Award.

IN THE CLASSROOM
Ms. White's teaching career began in Maryland. She's taught in the primary and middle grades and served as a mentor teacher in the Fremont Unified School District in Fremont, California. She substitutes at the Spanish immersion elementary school in Davis, California.

SCHOOL DAYS
Ms. White received a B.A. in English writing from the University of Washington and a master's degree in Spanish literature from Holy Names College in Oakland, California. She has studied anthropology and archaeology in Mexico.

Author Tekla White shares her Woodland, California home with two cats.

Ito,a lucky, black cat, decided he needed a home and moved into the Woodland White House. Ito likes to meow and listen to music. He doesn't care for dogs.

Bella's first owner was allergic to cats so she moved in, too. Bella is an aerial acrobat who performs daring leaps between cat trees and furniture without a safety net.

School Visits
Tekla White, author of Missions of the San Francisco Bay Area, invites you to open California mission doors and visit with Franciscan priests and Native Americans who lived near San Francisco Bay.
Large and small group school presentations for students studying California history.

School presentations about The Flight of the Union include information about Niagara Falls and kite history as well as how a kite string helped build a suspension bridge.

What's Your Story? Classroom workshops for students in elementary school help students blend the where, when, and who into a spellbinding tale.