Weaving the Word is an unpublished novel about the girlhood of the Virgin Mary.
I wrote the Book of Jude in honor of my late sister Kary, who suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder. It tells the story of an American family living in Prague before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Boyds Mill Press, 2008
2008 Top Ten Books for Young Readers, Washington Post
Best Books 2008, Children’s Book Council
2008 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
Dante’s Daughter is the imagined story of Dante’s real-life daughter during the early Renaissance in Italy and France.
Front Street Books, 2003
2004 CCBC Choices, Cooperative Children’s Book Council
2004 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
2004 Children’s Book Award Notable, International Reading Association
2003 Association for Mormon Letters YA Award
2003 PSLA Young Adult Top Forty
German translation
German paperback reprint, 2008
The Shakeress was my first novel. I love the cover, which was painted by my daughter Jennifer. An orphaned girl in 1830s New England goes to live with the Erastus Snow family in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Front Street Books, 2002
2003 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
2002 Top Ten Kid’s Books, Washington Post
I wrote Single Parenting when I went looking for a book to help cope after my husband left our young family and couldn’t find one. A chapter is excerpted in All Kinds of Mothers, Deseret Book, 2020.
Deseret Book, 1999
Although I enjoyed writing these three books for Scholastic’s “Wicked History” series, after living in Mao’s head for several months I decided to be more selective about who I would write about.
Scholastic, 2009 and 2010
HIstory of the Americas series
Lynx Social Studies Collection, Harcourt, 2006
Ancient World series
Oxford University Press, 2005
SmartStart is the comprehensive pre-school curriculum my team and I developed during my time at the Waterford Institute. Keyed to Waterford’s in-home UPSTART software and national standards, this research-based program includes parent materials, downloadables, accommodations for a variety of learners, and a complete assessment program.