Great news! The audiobook is out for my award-winning short novel for kids 12-14, The Long Shadow. It’s a time travel tale of racial reconciliation, aimed at kids 12-14. Winner of a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award. At 4 hours, 41 minutes, it’s...
Robert Treskillard concludes his terrific YA Merlin trilogy with this book, Merlin’s Nightmare (2014), leaving some threads open for starting a new work focused on Arthur. I’m really enjoying Treskillard’s re-imagining of Merlin as a non-magician. Merlin is a...
Crispin: The Cross of Lead, by Avi, Book 1 in the Crispin trilogy Published 2002 by Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 262 pages Genre: Historical drama for tweens This book won the Newbery Award when it was published, and more recently the author has published...