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JESSICA VITALIS is an award-winning, Columbia MBA-wielding middle grade author with Greenwillow/HarperCollins. Her books have been translated into three languages, received multiple starred reviews, been designated as Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, and appeared on “Best Book” lists for Kirkus and CCBC. Her latest novel, Coyote Queen, won the Reading the West Book Award and the Women Writing the West 2024 WILLA Literary Award in Children’s Fiction and Non-Fiction. It is also a High Plains Book Award and SCBWI Crystal Kite Book Award finalist. A historical novel in verse, Unsinkable Cayenne, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection arriving October 29th, 2024. Jessica has American and Canadian citizenship; she current ...more

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	The Wolf's Curse 4.22 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsinkable Cayenne 4.17 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coyote Queen 4.26 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rabbit's Gift 4.11 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fall Reflections

The Rabbit’s Gift is finally out on shelves (and in readers’ hands); celebrating this book has been a joy! Some of the highlights include:

*A virtual launch event with the fabulous author Anne Ursu (if you missed it, you can catch the recording here)
*An in-person launch event with live rabbits
*Connecting with readers, schools, librarians, and booksellers

Another big highlight was traveling to NCTE

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The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)

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Beautiful Ugly

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Readers will cheer for Kep and his team as they return to the site of the Battle of Saratoga to try to fix the damage done by a decoy letter and a secret British spy embedded in camp. The author does an excellent job bringing readers up to speed on t ...more
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Booklist called this book a "love letter" to Puerto Rico, and I can see why––the incredibly setting shined on every page! A fast-paced adventure about an aspiring filmmaker shipped off to his grandmother's house for the summer only to find himself ru ...more
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I started reading the arc of WHERE THE STORM GROWS, an upcoming historical MG, and I couldn’t put it down! I fell in love with both POV characters; Joanna lives with chronic pain and shame due to her scoliosis and her twin brother Howe is a poet forc ...more
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