It’s 1918. A war of nations is ending and a worldwide flu epidemic is just heating up, but to thirteen-year-old Hellie, the only battle that counts is her own survival.

Winner of the
2010 WILLA
Literary Award

For Young Adults

THE LIKES OF ME
Delacorte/Random
Chosen a Best Book by American Library Assn., and New York Public Library, Finalist for the Willa Literary Award, 2001

Cordelia Lu Hankins is half-Caucasian, half Chinese - and all albino. She has grown up isolated from the world, convinced she is ugly and that her father has deliberately hidden her away. Then in the summer of 1918, when she is fourteen, she meets the dashing Squirl...

HONOR BRIGHT
Delacorte/Doubleday
Winner of 1999 Keystone State Reading Award
Co-write/option deal signed!

In 1944, while much of the world is at war, fourteen-year-old Teddy wages her own war against herself, her twin brother, and her perfect, and perfectly despised, mother. As the summer unfolds, Teddy uncovers secrets about the past that has left her with badly scarred hands and has left her mother and grandmother bitterly divided.

Literary Fiction

THE FOUR ARROWS FE-AS-KO
Catbird Press
Filmed as Promise The Moon
by Sullivan Entertainment

When the owner of Oregon's largest cattle ranch - the Four Arrows - is shot by his horse in a freak accident, Royal Leckner suddenly finds himself charged with teaching the owner's retarded son to take over management of the ranch.

THE ROYALSCOPE FE-AS-KO
Catbird Press

In The Royalscope Fe-As-Ko, Northwest cattle rancher Royal Leckner finds himself in the middle of another fe-as-ko, this time in 1915 Hollywood.

Dreams of stardom for her daughter, Elsie, and for herself entice Royal's wife, E.M., to buy a silent film company. She quickly renames it Royalscope Productions in order to convince her fuming husband it's a gift...  

THE 1898 BASE-BALL FE-AS-KO
Catbird Press

All it takes for Leviticus to become obsessed with The Game is watching two boys play catch with a baseball. But having inherited a ranch, Levi can do more than the average newcomer to America's pastime: not only can he join a team, he can be wrangled into buying a team for himself.

OUT OF A FOREST CLEARING
An Environmental Fable
John Daniel and Company

It is a well-known yet mysterious fact that animals possess the uncanny ability to forecast certain natural disasters. Given this, what would you do if every insect, mammal, fish, bird, and reptile completely deserted the area within miles of a nuclear submarine facility---simply vanished without any scientific or biological explanation...?