A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT
Available February 2012
When Tetsu's family is forced to leave their home after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the only thing he takes with him that he cares about is his baseball glove. In just one month, his world is torn apart. His father is taken away, his dog, Lefty, is given away, and he's sent with his sister, mother, and thousands of other Japanese Americans to an internment camp in the middle of the Arizona desert, The camp isn't technically a prison, but it feels like one., There's nowhere to go, and nothing to do. Until a man starts a boy's baseball team and builds a field outside the camp. Tetsu can't wait to start living and breathing his sport again. But then his sister gets dangerously sick, and Tetsu is forced to choose between his family and his love of the game.
NEWS & EVENTS
A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT is an Indiebound Kid's Next List pick for spring 2012.
The film rights for A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT have been sold to Dyson Thomas Films, LLC.
The Year the Swallows Came Early is now a Bank Street Best Book for 2010.
Bookpage has named The Year the Swallows Came Early as one of the Ten Best Middle Grade Novels of 2009.
The Year the Swallows Came Early has been named by Booklist as a Top Ten First Novels for Youth in 2009.
The Year the Swallows Came Early is now a California Readers Collection List selection for 2010
Scholastic's Instructor Magazine has named The Year the Swallows Came Early as a Best Kids' Book for 2009.
The Year the Swallows Came Early has been nominated by SCIBA (Southern California Independent Booksellers Association) for their annual book awards.
MEET KATHRYN
When Kathryn was thirteen, her mother sent her to New York to visit her grandmother, who was a science fiction author. After seeing how her grandmother created the characters in her books, Kathryn decided that she, too, wanted to become a writer.