AMERICAN SPIRITS is one of five ALA Young Adult Library Services Association YALSA  Nonfiction Finalists! Read all about the books and the awards here! And it’s a Kirkus Best Book of the Year! It’s also been selected for the Illinois READS program for 2026!

HOUDINI’S LIBRARY has its first starred review! “Pure Magic”! Read here! And it’s a Junior Library Guild selection.

SEA WITHOUT A SHORE won a Riverby Award from the John Burroughs Association and is a Green Earth Book Awards recommended title! 

THE GREAT LAKES won the Blueberry Award for inspiring a love of nature, and is on the best of the year lists by Booklist, Bank Street, Chicago Public Library, CCBC and SLJ!

THE MYSTERY OF THE MONARCHS is a California Young Reader Medal nominee 

New Books on the Way:

I’m working on whale and elephant science, Emily Dickinson’s kitchen, the Mississippi River, and George Washington in a dress! More news soon!