Roxy Douxamer and the Just Desserts
Roxy and Miette are unlikely friends. Roxy detests desserts because they taste like disappointment. Miette is an echidna on walkabout with a passion for pastry. They are thrown together by a case of culinary espionage in Paris.
Middle Grade Fiction (40,000 words)
Wonder Kids
The Wonder family — Olympia, 9, Baker, 8, and their mom, Wendy — have embarked on a yearlong adventure in America’s national parks, starting in Yellowstone. Oly and Baker become citizen scientists as they learn about bison conservation.
Chapter Book (10,000 words)
Fairytooth
Izola Pariah is always thirsty—for water and for love. Gran promises that magic will bring back the water, but Izola has no more time or heart for fairytales. Izola resigns herself to years of hard labor to earn a water share for her family, until the discovery of a fairytooth challenges everything Izola believes about courage, kinship, and love.
Middle Grade Fiction (40,000 words)
Grandpa Lives by the Ocean
A little girl loves her grandpa and his life beside the ocean. When he gets sick, she learns that love, like light, goes on and on forever. A lyrical picture book celebration of love and connection.
Picture Book (250 words )
Las Fridas
At six-years-old, Frida Kahlo is isolated from friends and family by polio. She fears being weak and forgotten. To regain her strength she invents a companion—Frieda—and the two girls use their imaginations to heal Frida’s body and mind. Based on true events recounted in Kahlo’s diary, LAS FRIDAS captures a rarely told chapter of Kahlo’s life.
Co-authored with Gloria Diaz
Picture Book (800 words)
Garden Grow
A bedtime ritual, a celebration of nature, and a lyrical action rhyme for ages 2 to 8. In the tradition of All the World and Yellow Kayak, GARDEN GROW explores the deep roots that connect children to nature and uses imagery, sound, and touch to sooth children to sleep.
Picture Book (250 words)