Young Adult Novels

Call Me the Canyon, Brown Barn Books, November 2006

Madolen yearns to see life outside the red walls of her canyon. As an adopted daughter of a kind Mormon family and then as a guide for a handsome young Easterner, she finds love. But will his love be what she is seeking? In the background, the lure of gold and the dangerous beaty of the west's great canyons and mountains that always call...along with the voices of Madolen's ancestors--the Old Ones--and the song of Madolen's own canyon.

WILLA Award Finalist, Young Adult Fiction

Under a Stand Still Moon, Brown Barn Books, November 2005

On their mesas and plains, an ancient people once built great dwellings and places of worship and for many generations, farmed, hunted, traded and worshipped the mighty gods. This is the story of Echo, born in a lucky month when the moon stood still.

Independent Publishers Book Award Winner 2006 for Multicultural Fiction

ForeWord Magazine YA Fiction Bronze Award

A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young Peopel 2006--the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council

WILLA Award Finalist, Young Adult Fiction