Article: Life is sweet.(Cool Girl)(Heather Wilder won the prize for her books)(Brief article)

A Las Vegas girl just won 81,000! No, she didn't hit it big at the blackjack table. Heather Wilder, 13, wrote a series of books for kids going through the struggles she faced as a foster child, scoring her first prize in Dum Dum Pops' Make Life A Little Sweeter contest. To help kids cope with the emotional upheaval of being in the foster care system, Heather wrote books such as What is a Social Worker? and Moving from House to House. "As a foster kid, you don't have future plans because you don't know what your future will be ...

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