Marsha Qualey – författare

Bon Voyage! Gracie LaRoo and the Water Sprites are going on a cruise! The director is Gracie''s friend, and he has asked Gracie and her team to perform. But everything starts falling apart. No one is coming to their shows, except pesky piglets who like throwing things at them. Gracie fears she''s let her team and her friend down, until she comes up with the perfect solution and saves the day!

Gracie LaRoo is famous, especially to her alma mater! But when they ask her to come to speak to the students, Gracie is more than a little nervous. Sure enough, the minute she arrives, she encounters the tough headteacher that used to be hard on her back in her schooldays and then a coach who thinks synchronized swimming is a joke. The worst, though, is finding out she has to speak in front of an entire auditorium of unruly piglets. Will Gracie be able to keep her cool, remember she''s a star and make it through the day?

Piggywood! Gracie LaRoo had long been starstruck with the town where glamorous film stars worked on thrilling films. But now it''s her turn, a famous director asks Gracie to be a part of her next film. Gracie is thrilled! That is, until she gets there. Her part is not at all what she thought it would be and she can''t seem to find her voice to speak up. Plus, her idol, Tilda Swinetune, is unhappy with the way the film is going, too. But Gracie works out a way to save the day and in the process finds her voice.

Gracie LaRoo is the youngest pig to make it to the Pig Jubilee in synchronized swimming. As the star of her team, the Water Sprites, the pressure is on! But Gracie can''t seem to concentrate and land her signature move, the one sure to lead them to victory. Gracie has to find a way to get her concentration back, find her confidence and land the move to bring home the gold medal and to make her team proud.

A new synchronized swimming season is about to start, and Gracie LaRoo can''t wait! But when she arrives at training camp, none of the other Water Sprites seem very interested on training. Where is the focus? Where is the teamwork? Where is the fun? Gracie doesn''t know, but she''s determined to pull her team together.

Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn has announced her Halloween costume, and it's perfect for her. She is going to be a Super Bee! But when her cape causes issues, B. feels less than super. She is on a mission to find her superpower, with or without her pesky cape! The Bumble B. early chapter book series will inspire young readers to never give up. Easy-to-read text, short chapters, fun illustrations, a glossary, discussion questions and writing prompts complete the book.

Several hundred women are about to converge on tiny Pepin, Minnesota, to celebrate the birthday of Ida May Turnbull, the long-dead author of a beloved series of children’s books. When the “Little Girls” gather in Pepin, one woman finds life has changed forever.Leigh Burton is a disgraced journalist who was stripped of a Pulitzer for fabricating details in a few newspaper stories. In the years since, Leigh has been scratching out a living as a freelancer, and has arrived in Pepin to assist an aged former vice president of the United States with his memoirs. Because no publisher will buy any nonfiction with her fingerprints on it, Leigh has to keep her past under wraps, which becomes a challenge when she’s gently blackmailed by a Pepin local, and Leigh’s sixteen-year-old daughter arrives unexpectedly and threatens to tell everyone Mom’s secret. Making things even more difficult is that Leigh is living in Ida May Turnbull’s long-shuttered childhood home, which puts her in the bulls-eye of the Little Girls’ obsession. It’s a position that jeopardizes her secret, her work, a budding romance, and her fragile relationship with her daughter.

An edge-of-the-seat adventure! - Publisher''s Weekly (starred review)Seventeen-year-old Arden Munro has been raised by her older brother, Scott, ever since the death of their parents 10 years earlier. He has been her only family. But now Scott too is dead--or so believe the local police and everyone in Arden''s community. Arden, however, is convinced that Scott has staged his snowmobile accident and purposely disappeared. She will search until she finds him. As Arden obsessively continues her detective hunt, she is forced to examine her feelings of loss and isolation, and to finally realize that these feelings existed long before Scott''s accident. Whether or not her brother reappears, where should Arden turn for the support that usually comes from family? The page-turning mystery leads to a heart-tugging conclusion that is at once hopeful and sad, piercing and satisfying.

Kelly Ray is nineteen and a recovering heroin addict. To stay sober, she lives by a severe set of rules, and the last thing she needs is a complicated guy. And who could be more complicated than the heir to the throne of a war-torn European country? But when, by chance, she meets Prince Tomas Teronovich, Kelly is hooked--not so much by his looks, his gentleness, or his obvious attraction to her, but by the idea of getting him on her Aunt Kit''s radio talk show. So begins one amazing night, during which she will need to keep Prince Tom entertained, hidden from his guards and the politicians who want to control his every move; keep secret for as long as possible her connection to the controversial host of "Kit Chat"…and keep herself from falling in love.