In two stories that feature the irrepressible Adam Joshua, Adam must dress up for Halloween as the very thing that scares him the most, and then decide if he should reveal the whereabouts of a missing library book. Reprint.
She lives and plays in Colorado with her husband, Jim, and their dogs Rosie and Bailey.
Honors/Awards: Bread Loaf Writer's Conference scholarship, 1981, and fellowship, 1982 Named among the Outstanding Young Women of America, 1981 Indiana Arts Commission/National Endowment for the Arts master arts fellowship grant, 1984, for The Show-and-Tell War, and for The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches: Stories about Adam Joshua The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches was selected an International Reading Association Children's Choice, 1985 Addi Award, 1987, for advertising booklet