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Storm cell

2007
After a powerful storm in Oklahoma takes the lives of her parents, Dr. April Saunders dedicates her life to studying tornadoes and finding better systems to track them. On a trip to Seattle with her teenage daughter, she stumbles upon a supercell that begins to cause rare and forceful tornadoes in the area.

A day at the market

2006
Simple text and illustration provide an introduction to the sights, sounds, and smells of Seattle's Pike Place Market. Presented on board paper.

Terminal event

a novel
2001
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Joe Durant embarks on a frantic hunt for clues to prove that the plane crash in which his wife died was caused by an evil bomber.

Nisei daughter

2000
A Japanese-American's personal account of growing up in Seattle in the 1930s and of being subjected to relocation during World War II.

The Jewel and the key

2011
Sixteen-year-old Addie McNeal, transported back to 1917 Seattle on the eve of World War I by a mysterious antique mirror, is drawn to the grand Jewel Theater, which still exists in her own time, and must find a way to manipulate the strands of time to save the theater and her friends from destruction.

Betwixt

2009
Three alienated teenagers are drawn to a strange outdoor concert in the woods outside of Seattle, where they discover that they possess magical powers and that their destinies are intertwined.

A clear spring

2002
While visiting relatives in Seattle, twelve-year-old Willa explores the ethnic diversity of her family and investigates the pollution of a salmon stream.

Tribute to another dead rock star

2003
For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.

Flyaway

2011
Fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun, the daughter of a drug addict who has agreed to go with her aunt Mindy after another one of her mom's disappearances, is confident her mom will return, and wonders if she cares about her friend Alan, school, or anything else that has to do with the life of a normal teenager.

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