Hi-Line Living: Mary's children's books

Mary McKenzie is a local children's book author who finds time for her passion somewhere in between her full-time job at the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Institute and her family, which includes five children and her husband, Chad.

Mary has already self-published three books this year and plans to release a few more within the next few months.

Although she published it this year, Mary said she wrote her first children's book, "Andrew's Kernel of Truth," - a tale about a wheat kernel named Andrew whose plans for a big and beautiful life are threatened by a nasty weed - about 10 years ago.

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