Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction
THE LEGEND OF ZOEY
Published by Random House/Delacorte (2007)
Reprinted by Yearling in paperback
Winner of the SCBWI Most Promising New Work Award and Volunteer State Book Award Nominee
Zoey's family has a strange feeling about the two-tailed comet in the sky. But that doesn’t mean Zoey will let them chaperone her class field trip to Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee—especially since Grandma Cope grew up near there. What if Grandma tells everyone about being a Native American? Zoey has no interest in her family’s past. All she wants is for her parents to get back together, and for herself to fit in at school. She doesn’t know what’s hit her when, during the bus ride to Reelfoot, she’s propelled back in time to 1811, when the lake was formed!
Now Zoey’s cell phone doesn’t work, there’s no fast food in sight, and massive earthquakes keep rattling the land. Prim, proper Prudence Charity and her way-too-pregnant mother are the first people Zoey sees, but they don’t believe her story—until they meet up with Chickasaw Chief Kalopin and his beautiful Choctaw bride. Kalopin is convinced that the Great Spirit has cursed him for stealing Laughing Eyes from Chief Copiah, and that soon, the river will swallow up his village and everyone in it. Zoey knows they’re headed for disaster, but can she find the courage to save them?
Available through the Parnassus Book Store in Nashville, as a Nook e-book through Barnes & Noble in Murfreesboro, Books-A-Million in Murfreesboro, or Amazon.
Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction
VIVIAN VANDE VELDE: AUTHOR OF FANTASY FICTION
Published by Enslow Press, 2009
I met Vivian at a school visit and we hit it off. Then I saw her name on an Enslow list and specifically queried to write her bio. She thought I was nuts, that no one wanted to read her bio, but I convinced her they would. She’s a great writer. And a nice person, and in children's literature, that's a winning combination.
