Clarissa and Casey Kendall are a mother-daughter duo from Vermont. Clarissa is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a degree in Sociology. She has been a homeschool mom for ten years and counting. She has five children and enjoys learning right along with them. Her daughter, Casey, has always aspired to be an author and won the Green Up Vermont Writing Contest in 2021. I Appreciate Your Resilience is a collaboration that they hope reaches many families, schools, and libraries around the United States and beyond. The pandemic created so many hardships for children and it is so important to make children aware of how strong they really are.