Works

Novels

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Numb

Harper Perennial · 2010

A psychological novel about a man who wakes up with no memory, no ability to feel pain, and no fear of what life might do to him, and has to figure out who he is from the outside in.

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Man in the Empty Suit

Soho Press · 2013

Wearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own one-hundredth birthday celebration every year with other versions of himself and encounters in his thirty-ninth year his murdered forty-year-old body, a situation that compels him to prevent his own death.

Middle Grade

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The Sinister Secrets of Singe

Pixel+Ink · 2023 · Illustrated by Graham Carter

The Wild Robot meets Sweet Tooth in the first book in a sweeping adventure series packed with robots, smugglers, battles, and a lonely boy trying to find where he fits in the world.

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The Sinister Secrets of the Fabulous Nothings

Pixel+Ink · 2024 · Illustrated by Graham Carter

Technological wonders and terrors combine to weave an enchanting tale of finding your own way to belong in the second book in the sweeping Sinister Secrets series.

Picture Books

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I Don't Like Koala

Atheneum · 2015 · Illustrated by Charles Santoso

Adam does not like Koala. Koala is a terrible terrible. Will Adam ever be rid of Koala?

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The Snurtch

Atheneum · 2016 · Illustrated by Charles Santoso

Some days are bad days. Ruthie is having one of those. It is not the students. It is not the classroom. It is something scribbly, scrunchy, grabby, burpy, and rude. It is the Snurtch.