Meghan Linder was driving home from a football game late one night when one wrong step marked the beginning of three surgeries and her journey to becoming an author.
At age 15, Linder published her first book, Silent Strides, a novel about a football player who is paralyzed from the waist down.
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15-year-old student Meghan Linder from Marion High School publishes her first book, “Silent Strides.”
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