To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is a pleasure beyond compare.

~ Yosida Kenko ~

Coming 2015!

Blue Birds

(G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin)

Blue Birds, a middle-grade novel in verse, centers on a forbidden friendship between Alis, the only girl in Virginia's doomed first settlement, and Kimi, a Roanoke girl.

Coming 2014!

Over in the Wetlands

(Schwartz and Wade/Random House Children’s Books)

Based on the traditional rhyme, Over in the Meadow, this picture book follows the animals of the Louisiana shoreline as they prepare for and withstand a hurricane.

MAY B.

Schwartz and Wade (Random House Children's Books), January 2012

I watch the wagon

until I see nothing on the open plain.

For the first time ever,

I am alone.

May is helping out on a neighbor’s homestead—just until Christmas, her pa promises. But when a terrible turn of events leaves her all alone, she must try to find food and fuel—and courage—to make it through the approaching winter.

This gorgeous  novel in verse by Caroline Starr Rose will transport you to the Kansas prairie—to the endless grassland, and to the suffocating closeness of the sod house where May is stranded.

May’s eloquent yet straightforward voice, and her bravery, determination, and willingness to risk it all will capture your heart.

Buy the book here:

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Download a free May B. Study Guide here!

Winner of the May B. Book Club Kit:  Merrimack, NH Public Library's Family Book Group