Melissa Wiley

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Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley is the author of more than a dozen books for kids and teens, including The Prairie ThiefInch and Roly Make a WishFox and Crow Are Not Friends, and the Martha and Charlotte Little House books. She lives in San Diego with her husband and their six kids. Melissa blogs about her family’s reading life at Here in the Bonny Glen and is a contributing writer for GeekMom. She is @bonnyglen on Twitter. http://melissawiley.com/

Wiley has created a charming, inventive tale that reads like a delightful mash-up of Little House on the Prairie and Tony DiTerlizzi’s ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ (S & S). Short chapters and the air of mystery and suspense keep the pages turning, and readers will be taken with Louisa, who is sweet and mild-mannered, yet has the strength to fight for what is right. The writing is breezy and lyrical…[a] top-notch story.
— School Library Journal