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A sweet and touching exploration of the scariness of BIG feelings and overcoming the pressures to do everything "just right" in this companion title to SOMETIMES I'M BOMBALOO.

SOMETIMES I GRUMBLESQUINCH is available now!

(more info on the GRUMBLESQUINCH page!)

Rachel Vail: Author, Mom, Tea Lover

Rachel Vail: Author, Mom, Tea Lover

 

Rachel Vail is the award-winning author of more than 40 books. 

Her newest picture book is SOMETIMES I GRUMBLESQUINCH.

Her newest novel for middle-schoolers is BAD BEST FRIEND.

Her novels for teens and tweens also include WELL, THAT WAS AWKWARD; UNFRIENDED; IF WE KISS; KISS ME AGAIN; THE AVERY SISTERS TRILOGY: LUCKY, GORGEOUS, BRILLIANT, and the Friendship Ring series.

For elementary school kids, her chapter book series, A is for ELIZABETH! joins the JUSTIN CASE trilogy.

Her picture books include PIGGY BUNNY and SOMETIMES I’M BOMBALOO.

Rachel lives in New York City and beside a lake in CT with her husband, their two sons, and a tortoise named Lightning.

 

More on Rachel:

Penguin Random House

Goodreads 

Macmillan -- Justin Case

Junior Library Guild Selections - Justin Case series, the A is for Elizabeth series, and Well, That Was Awkward

Click me  to see some of the awards Rachel has won!

The Associated Press interviewed Rachel about her first kiss and the young love in her books in “A Kiss is Just a Kiss, Unless It’s the Very First One.”

The Associated Press interviewed Rachel about her first kiss and the young love in her books in “A Kiss is Just a Kiss, Unless It’s the Very First One.”