Illinois Authors

Avalon Books, T. Bouregy and Co., New York : 1988.

Putnam's, New York : 2000.

Twelve-year-old Destiny tries to find meaning in her art in a life complicated by three younger siblings, a mother who dreams of winning the lottery, and her mother's unscrupulous boyfriend.

Beltz und Gelberg Weinheim 1995

Teenage Books, Loveland, Colo. : ©1990.

The reader's decisions control the course of a story in which Stacy, a Christian teenager, confronts sexuality, dating, and marriage.

Zhong tang zhi ye chu ban : Tai bei shi : 1994[min 83]

Puffin Books, New York : 2000, ©1998.

Fifth-grader Carly's assignment to interview a reclusive, brooding classmate leads her to discover some of the events that have caused his antisocial behavior and abusive family's negative impact on their Missouri farming community, and Carly's family in particular.

Putnam's, New York : ©2007.

Fourteen-year-old Rhiannon lives high on the bluff of Clodaghcombe with her healer Mom and grandmother. She helps them tend to the sick and wounded from the town below, a town swirling with controversy ever since the arrival of the Norman gentry and the tragic shipwreck that killed the king's only son and heir to the throne.

Putnam's, New York : ©2007.

Fourteen-year-old Rhiannon lives high on the bluff of Clodaghcombe with her healer Mom and grandmother. She helps them tend to the sick and wounded from the town below--a town swirling with controversy ever since the arrival of the Norman gentry and the tragic shipwreck that killed the king's only son and heir to the throne. Rhiannon finds herself transfixed imagining the horrid disaster that took so many youths near her own age. Then tragedy strikes closer to home with the discovery of a stranger's body near their bluff and accusations of murder leveled at one of their residents. Rhiannon knows she has to do something even though it means standing up to the aristocracy. But with help from a young monk and a mysterious pirate from France Rhiannon hatches a dangerous plan to discover the true murderer's identity and sets off on a course that could have stunning consequences and perhaps even reveal an astounding secret that could change history.

Scholastic, New York : [1992], ©1990.

When her best friend dumps her to be with the popular kids, overweight Lori shares an unusual but brief friendship with a homeless girl.

Puffin Books, New York : 2000, ©1999.

Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.

Paw Prints 2008.