Selected Works

The sequel to SHEEP.
Diminutive, shy, and quiet, sixth-grader Minnie McClary learns how to use her power and her voice to stand up for what she knows is right.
A homeless dog and a homeless girl find each other and start a new life together. A Banks Street Book Of The Year!
"The victory of the human spirit shines through Defiance like the sun."
--Suzanne Fisher Staples
Life changes for Lucy when she visits her grandmother at the end of a very special summer.
The heartwarming story of a dog and boy who find each other when hope is nearly gone.
Young Adult action and romance. Now available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle
The book that jumpstarted my career and won me a Flying Start award from Publisher's Weekly. Young Adult (12-18).
In the late 1960's, fourteen-year-old Cory's life is greatly changed by the sudden death of her father and her brother's tour of duty in Vietnam.
"With all my heart, I loved Bobby James Walker. I forgave him, too. But I did not want to see him anymore. Not then, and maybe not ever." Sally Jo Walker
An endearing young couple's search for independence and identity.
An elderly couple fall in love and elope to Yellowstone.

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What I've learned in all the years since I began writing is that each of us has at least one special story to tell. Some stories are sad, some funny, but all are as unique as our fingerprints. We are storytellers, every one of us. Some of us just have to write those stories down. I didn't always want to be a writer though. What I longed for most was to be an ice skater, but when I was fifteen I moved with my family from New Jersey to California and there went the ice.

My first short story began with a journal entry written when I was nineteen, after a close friend of mine met with a tragic accident. Many years later, that same story became the basis for my first novel, How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadn't Called You Back. Thirteen novels have followed, with two more to come, Maggie And Oliver in October 2011 and Minnie McClary Takes A Stand in September 2012. Writing is the hardest work I've ever done, but by far the most fun.


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WOLF, the sequel to SHEEP, a California Young Reader Medal winner, will be published in September 2013.

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