Audrey Couloumbis

The papers call Maude notorious. But 12-year-old Sallie knows her big sister didn't do the things the stories say... not on purpose anyway. In fact, she and Maude have made a fresh start and are trying to live on the up-and-up. But just when the girls are settling into their new life, Maude is arrested--and before you can say "jailbreak," the orphaned sisters are back on the run!

In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Misadventures of Maude March, Newbery Honor winner Audrey Couloumbis once again takes on a dizzingly fast, delightfully rowdy, and altogether heartwarming ride through the old west--proving that half the fun of any journey is the getting there. Learn More...

Available January 23, 2007.

Getting Near to Baby is the story of two elder sisters, twelve-year-old Willa Jo and her overbearing Aunt Patty, learning to balance family responsibilities with tolerance and compassion in the face of a family tragedy, while delivering a healthy dose of laughter for the reader.

Say Yes is the story of a twelve-year-old girl who comes home from school to find that her stepmother is gone. Rather than drawing clear lines between villains and heroes, Couloumbis reveals the effect of fear and desperation on the choices her characters make.

Grace's brother has gone to Canada after her father has thrown him out of the house, and her mother supports the boy's decision. When Grace hopes to take comfort from her cousins who also have older brothers of draft age, one already in Vietnam and one in Canada, she is forced to face the underlying issues.

Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about.

Elvira hates her family.

And who wouldn't? Her little sister is a pest with a big-sister attitude. Her mother is pregnant and Elvira is just old enough to be regarded as a live-in babysitter. Her father--the Elvis impersonator--went away mad and hasn't called home.

And that's only the beginning of what goes wrong in Elvira's life. Fasten your seatbelt for a ride in the DeSoto Fire Flite and join her for a fun family excursion.

Watch for Love Me Tender, due out in Spring of 2008..