Sherri Lynn Smith

Some see the cup as half empty and others see it half full. But what do you do when the cup is empty? In this book, Lil’ Sherri, along with some help from her friends, gives a message about optimism. Lil’ Sherri shows that whether a cup, a bowl, or even a heart is empty, what matters most is filling...

"Beautiful clothes, bad habits, ugly secrets:Sherri L. Smith probes the vulnerable underbellies of a lot of toothy sharks in this page-turning California noir.Pasadenais stylish and still sad, chilling and still hopeful, open-hearted and still mysterious. Smith is an author with astonishing range an...

First came the storms.Then came the Fever.And the Wall.After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct…but in reality, a n...

A gorgeously imagined Nutcracker retelling from award-winning author making her middle-grade debutStefan Drosselmeyer is a reluctant apprentice to his toymaker father until the day his world is turned upside down. His father is kidnapped and Stefan is enlisted by his mysterious cousin, Christian Dro...

Ana Shen has what her social studies teacher calls a “marvelously biracial, multicultural family” but what Ana simply calls a Chinese American father and an African American mother. And on eighth-grade graduation day, that’s a recipe for disaster. Both sets of grandparents are in town to celebrate, ...