![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate’s grandmother had made rosaries for each of her family members, engraving the beads with the initials of each of her relatives’ names. Her grandmother’s tragic death in the crash devastates Kate’s family, most especially her mother, who sinks into clinical depression over time. Published by Pauline Books & Media, “A Single Bead” is set in Indianapolis, Engelman’s current home, and relates how Katelyn “Kate” Marie Roberts discovers a rosary bead with her initials on it, in a field where her grandmother’s plane had crashed. Earlier this year, the book won Second Place in the Catholic Press Association Book Awards for Teens and Young Adults as well as Second Place in the Children’s Books Category of the Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards. “Eventually you’re making their responses your own.”Įngelman so believes in the power of the Rosary that she wrote “A Single Bead” to tell the tale of a teenage girl who discovers its life-changing beauty through her grandmother’s death. “If you’re praying the Rosary every day, then every day you’re meditating on the life of Christ and the Blessed Mother,” she says. ![]() It takes just 20 minutes a day to learn a whole new outlook on life, says Stephanie Engelman, author of the 2016 young adult Catholic novel “A Single Bead.”Ī convert from Methodism to Catholicism, Engelman spends about 20 minutes daily praying the Rosary, and says the practice has shaped her way of thinking. ![]()
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