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This one is from West Ridge Middle School outside Austin, TX! They told me NFL great Drew Brees went here. Can anybody confirm? Drew?

Week 2 – Cullen Elementary, Glendora, CA!

Calling all MASTERMINDS fans. CLICK HERE to enter the Goodreads giveaway to win an advance reading copy of MASTERMINDS: PAYBACK, the heart-pounding conclusion to the trilogy. The clones of Project Osiris are nearing the end of their journey. It’s time to meet their makers … on March 7th!

Great news – SLACKER has been nominated for a CYBILS Award from the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards committee! In keeping with the subject matter of the book, I’ve decided not to get too worked up about it. (Just kidding – I’m stoked.) Actually, the reason it took a couple of days to […]

In 2017, my New Year’s resolution is to honor all the awesome schools I’ve visited by wearing a different school t-shirt every week. Let’s start off with an oldie-but-goodie, Pottsville Middle School in Pottsville, Arkansas – school shirt couture at its finest. I’ve worn this one so often that my family is sick of looking […]

As we JINGLE all the way through the holidays, I want to wish my readers a wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy 2017! It has been an amazing year with three new titles out – SLACKER, new MASTERMINDS, and the latest SWINDLE, my first holiday book ever. 2017 promises to be just as awesome, […]

Do kids still write snail-mail letters to authors? Check out my post on Scholastic’s Judy Newman blog, powered by Scholastic Reading Clubs. Remember, I was the class monitor for Reading Clubs when I wrote my first book in 7th grade – which was the main reason I sent my manuscript to Scholastic. I figured I […]

Thanks, everybody, for so many awesome wishes on my birthday yesterday! In the spirit of middle grade humor, I celebrated with a pie in the face!

Fresh off its awesome Silver Birch win in Ontario and its Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award nomination, MASTERMINDS continues its westward march across Canada with a Red Cedar nomination in British Columbia! I hope the non-criminal masterminds of BC love MASTERMINDS!

It’s finally here – the cover for third and final book of the NY Times bestselling MASTERMINDS, trilogy. Surviving is hard enough, but the kids of Project Osiris know they can’t run and hide forever. Sooner or later, they’re going to have to take on the people behind the twisted experiment that created them in […]