2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Fiction

The Good Thieves

In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.

I, Freddy

Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature.

Otis Dooda series

When Lego-genius Otis and the Dooda family (including their rat named Smoochie) move to a bizarre apartment building in New York City, Otis must battle the curse of the “Potted Plant Guy,” subway zombies, and a myriad of other incredibly strange problems.

The Writing Retreat: A Novel

While attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-changing challenge, Alex, determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth.

Everybody Knows

 

After her boss is gunned down at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Mae Pruett, a "black-bag" publicist working at LA's most powerful crisis PR firm protecting the rich and depraved, decides to investigate, running afoul of the whole system.