“Heartfelt.”
★ Booklist
“Warm and memorable.”
Kirkus Reviews
Hazel’s Theory of Evolution
Lambda Literary Award Winner
Harper, 2019
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Hazel knows all about life on Earth. She could tell you anything from what earthworms eat to how fast a turkey can run. That’s because when she’s not hanging out with her best friend, Becca, or helping care for the goats on her family’s farm, she loves reading through dusty old encyclopedias. But even Hazel doesn’t have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade.
Due to redistricting, she has to attend a new school where she worries no one will understand her. And at home things get worse when she discovers one of her moms is pregnant. Hazel can’t wait to be a big sister, but her mom has already miscarried twice. Hazel fears it might happen again.
As Hazel struggles through the next few months, she’ll grow to realize that if the answers to life’s most important questions can’t be found in a book, she’ll have to find them within herself.
This Is Our Rainbow:
16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us
Edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby
Knopf, 2021
Hits shelves October 19. Preorder now!
“Vital and Liberating.”
★ Kirkus Reviews
The first LGBTQIA+ anthology for middle-graders featuring stories for every letter of the acronym, including realistic, fantasy, and sci-fi stories by Eric Bell, Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Ashley Herring Blake, Lisa Bunker, Alex Gino, Justina Ireland, Shing Yin Khor, Katherine Locke, Mariama J. Lockington, Nicole Melleby, Marieke Nijkamp, Claribel A. Ortega, Mark Oshiro, Molly Knox Ostertag, Aisa Salazar, and AJ Sass.
Drum Roll, Please
Harper, 2018
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“A perfect summer read.”
★ School Library Journal
This summer brings big changes for Melly: her parents split up, her best friend ditches her, and Melly finds herself falling for a girl at Camp Rockaway named Adeline. To top it off, Melly’s not sure she has what it takes to be a real rock ‘n’ roll drummer. Will she be able to make music from all the noise in her heart?
Starting from Here
Skyscape, 2012
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“A winner of a first novel.”
–Nancy Garden, author of Annie on My Mind
Sixteen-year-old Colby Bingham’s heart has been broken too many times. Her mother is dead, her truck driver father is always away, and her almost girlfriend just dumped her. When an injured stray dog lands at her feet, she decides to care for it. But new connections mean new opportunities for heartbreak. Colby can’t start over, but can she learn how to move on?
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