When I was an education writer for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts, I often wrote about young people who needed a t...

CHASING AUGUSTUS is a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Award from the Boston Authors Club .  I'm thrilled and honored to bring Rosi...

Scholastic Book Fairs sent me on a whirlwind speaking tour this spring to introduce CHASING AUGUSTUS and BEHOLDING BEE to nearly 3,...

      When I visit schools I am almost always asked to list my favorite books, so I've been keeping a list for more than a decade....

Thank you to all the reviewers and booksellers and teachers and librarians and parents who are helping children find their way to Chasi...

I didn’t talk much when I was a child. I stuttered and because of that I was incredibly shy, and this made speaking very ...

This is our dear Sally, the dog that inspired CHASING AUGUSTUS. A terrible very bad dog! I n 2012, when I finished the final dr...