Books with author Stephanie Tolan

Learning to walk again is the easy part.For twelve-year-old Charley, recovering from the accident that shattered her leg is nowhere near as difficult as facing the solitude of a summer without her best friend and with a father who does nothing, now, but work. Solitude means time to think, time to hear for the first time the awful silence left in her world two years ago by her mother's death.But the summer holds a surprise for Charley, in the form of a mysterious dog who appears in the woods across the lake from her home. In order to connect with this wild spirit she names Coyote, Charley will have to do more than just walk. She will have to follow Coyote into the heart of her memories: the woods her mother loved so much. And she will have to learn to listen past the silence.This unsentimental, unforgettable story comes straight from the heart of Newbery Honor author Stephanie S. Tolan. As she describes Charley's difficult emotional and physical journey, she weaves together themes of nature, family, and love into a complex and powerful portrait of recovery.

Thrown into a bizarre life of faerie rings, dark elves and magic worlds, sixteen-year-old Greyson, must come to terms with a new identity while adjusting to a small town and less than desirable solitary life - her only solace the magical forest behind her new home and Ian, the devastatingly handsome, mysteriously intriguing stranger she meets in the woods who is decidedly not that into her. If her dad didn’t just reveal a mind-blowing family secret she might be able to flirt a little more and pine a little less, but now she feels like a total outcast. Fortunately Ian, bucking his personal demons, eventually approaches Greyson and offers her “non-friend” status, fast becoming a great distraction from the life she doesn’t recognize.A life she is beginning to make sense of when she learns her parents are keeping her identity a secret not only from her but also from a dark evil that will stop at nothing to see her dead. When she wakes to a shocking surprise on her seventeenth birthday, the life she is just beginning to accept comes crashing down around her. Evil comes calling, igniting a battle she doesn’t want, against an enemy who may be closer than she thinks.

With the new school year starting for seventh grader Sophie Markman, she wants to try something new, including the prospect of being on a sports team. But with her limited athletic abilities, Sophie decides to join the only sport she qualifies for: badminton. However, the badminton team is different from any other team in school. They don't care if they win their games or not. They're too busy eating snacks, slacking off and having fun. The other teams at school think they're a joke. But they don't mind. Being the worst team in the school has its perks, though. The team gets to have crazy misadventures throughout the entire season.

Jack Semple and E.D. Applewhite are back, in this middle-grade sequel to Stephanie S. Tolan’s Newbery Honor Book Surviving the Applewhites.Teenager E.D., the not so artistic, not at all eccentric member of the unconventional Applewhite clan, can't believe the plan her father has hatched to save the family from financial disaster. He’s decided to transform their rural North Carolina farm into a summer camp for creative children.Soon the farm is packed with temperamental artists, out-of-control campers, and an even more out-of-control goat. It's all a little too much for structure-loving E.D., even before threatening notes begin appearing in the family mailbox. Together with Jake Semple--the boy who survived his first year in the Applewhites' home school—she's determined to save the camp and the family from disaster.Like Carl Hiassan’s Chomp, Applewhites at Wit's End combines outrageous humor and the frustrations and joys of being part of a family.