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Emma is pissed at the world. She has to be perfect, like her brother. But she won’t! She can’t be! Emma finds a reason to dislike most people. Yet, she is drawn to Blake, someone she used to hate. Without thinking it through she finds herself at the wrestling championship, hoping Blake feels the same way. But his world is very different from hers and she begins to wonder what she is doing. Her best friend, Billy, pushes Emma to look at why she makes bad choices. Emma refuses to listen to Billy and wrestles with a dark family secret as her anger spirals out of control.
Emma is Book 4 in the series The Way I See It. Each novel is written from the point of view of a different teen with his/her own take on the challenges they encounter at Hancock High. Differences between the teens is not limited to their diverse racial backgrounds, but dives into clashing mindsets that many teens encounter in society today. Poverty, prejudice, sexual harassment, academic and social struggles, perfectionism, drug use, homelessness and racial tensions are woven throughout the series, providing a platform for discussion and a source of hope.

LB Tillit is the award-winning author of a Silver 2012 Independent Book Publisher Award for her High interest level-Low reading level (Hi-Lo) novel, Unchained (2012). LB Tillit is the pen name for Leslie Parker Borhaug who grew up as a missionary-kid in Switzerland, where she struggled with reading and spelling in two different languages. In spite of her challenges, she attended Berea College in Kentucky, where she graduated cum laude in 1990 with her teaching degree. In 2015 she received her Master's in Reading and Literacy. She taught sixteen years in regular middle school classrooms and an alternative school, where she became aware of the need for Hi-Lo books to help build reading fluency. Combining her passion for teaching North Carolina history, and writing, she also wrote three award winning books, with her alternative-school students, about Transylvania County's local history, which improved her students reading levels an average of 3 reading grade levels. Because of the positive educational and personal impact Borhaug had on her students, she was honored as "Transylvania County Teacher of the Year". As LB Tillit, she also published the Hi-Lo novels: Edge of Ready (2012) and 2 Days (2012). As Leslie Parker Borhaug, she has co-authored two historical fiction novels with G. Keith Parker: Sons of Mercy and Justice: A Transylvania Story (2012), which won an award from North Carolina Society of Historians (2013), and To Stand on Solid Ground: A Civil War Novel Based on Real People and Events(2020), which won the 2020 Award of Excellence and Light House Award from North Carolina Society of Historians and was recognized by the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD in the category of Military Fiction as a 2021 distinguished favorite. Reading fluency remains her passion and continues to drive her to write high-interest level, low-reading level books. In 2020 she established My Easy Read Books, LLC as a platform to promote reading fluency. In 2022 Borhaug was awarded Berea College's Distinguished Alumni Award for her positive impact on literacy. Borhaug currently lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband and continues to write Hi-Lo books.