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Children's books by local
authors
 Starting
School with an Enemy
Elisa Carbone
Alfred A. Knopf
Written by Silver Spring resident Elisa Carbone, this is
a story told by a girl named Sarah during the summer she moves
to Maryland. She's having trouble adjusting already, but her
real troubles start one afternoon when she tries to help a
young boy. The boy's older brother is the school bully, and
he decides she is a troublemaker, so before she even starts
at her new school, Sarah has an enemy. Sarah is no pushover,
though, and her vengeful adventures during the school year
make for a funny book and a few good lessons. Sarah also stars
in another book by Elisa, called Sarah and the Naked Truth.
 Meet
Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area
Gabrielle Tayac
Beyond Words Publishing
Naiche, a Native American and the cousin of the author, isn't
much different than most kids. His mother may be Sioux, and
his father Pis-cataway, but you'll find that he follows cultural
traditions just like a Jewish or Catholic kid. Gabriell Tayac
is a longtime resident of Takoma Park, and she is a Museum
Program Specialist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
the American Indian.
 Mad
About Plaid
Jill McElmurry
HarperCollins Juvenile Books
How much trouble can one purse bring? Plenty, if it's plaid.
Follow Madison Pratt and her purse with a curse, as a plaid
germ gives everything in their town a bad case of plaid madness.
Jill McElmurry has been drawing and painting since she was
six. She has illustrated several other kids' books, but this
is the first she's written and illustrated. Jill moved to
Takoma Park after living in New Mexico and New York.
 The
Word Eater
Mary Amato
Holiday House
Mary Amato, longtime resident of Silver Spring and co-director
of Firefly Theatre, wrote this story of Fip the magical worm
and his good friend, Lerner Chanse, who are misfits that fit
together. Fip gets in trouble sometimes, since the words he
eats disappear forever from the Earth. But when his word-eating
does good—like when he eats "attacka" off the
mean Attackaterrier dogs—he finds his place.
 Takoma
Park children's book author Edward Allen Faine shows off his
books with a flourish, including Balloon Galloon, How the
Frog Got His Bree-Dup [with Joan Waites], and Wanted: How-to
Cowboy, and the loosely autobiographical series Little Ned
Stories, More Little Ned Stories, and Ned Ventures: Teenage
Life in the 1950s. To order, write IM Press, PO box 5346,
Takoma Park MD 20913, email efaine@yahoo.com,
or visit www.takoma.com/ned/home.htm.
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